[Dixielandjazz] euphoniums

[billsharp]

Mr.Gunter - -Some clarification on your musical illiteracy:  Actually 
the word euphoniums comes from an an expression made by the teenage 
daughter of the man who made the first one.  Upon hearing the sound 
produced by her inventor father Testy Testenhauffer, the daughter  
exclaimed, " Eu ! ! Phoniums! Dad, Please - - -do that outside, will 
you!"  His second invention (always the student of cacacophony)  was 
the washboard, which he, to his dying
claimed was a musical instrument, but which no one else in the country 
or abroad recognizes as such. He funeral procession was led by a 
thousand kazoo players, all tuned to the same pitch (- -pine tree}, in 
honor of the sap so over-looked in the annals of musical history.  So 
now you know the real story.