I
read in the news today that players of brass wind instruments are at risk of an
obscure disease called “bagpipe lung”.
Apparently sufferers develop a bad reaction to mould and fungi lurking inside the
moist interior of bagpipes. This was rather an article of academic interest
until I saw that it has been reported in saxophonists.
However
I was always under the impression that one blew the instrument, not sucked it.
Certainly that is how I play my saxophone…
I
suppose this isn’t really that relevant to my professional practice, but after thirty-plus
years I’ve found a disease of which I’d previously never heard…
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