[Dixielandjazz] Viol da gamba

[Brian Harvey]

The name Viol da Gamba is surely merely another for the cello and one has to
wonder what a cello was doing at a dance?  All of which reminds
me....................
A young woman is taking cello lessons. She's not all that good, and during a
particularly lamentable practice session her teacher can't stand it any more
and says:  "Lady, you've got between your legs an instrument that, if
adequately caressed, could give boundless pleasure to you and thousands of
other people; and the only thing you seem to be able to  do is to scratch
and scratch it!"  (Sir Thomas Beecham?)