[Dixielandjazz] More on "fishhorns"

[Norman Vickers]

To: DJML

Damn!  I’m getting’ educated.  I thought they were called fishorns because
they looked like a fishin’hook!

Now one less ignoranus!

 

 

 

> They're called "fishhorns" because, in the days when vendors plied the 

> streets of towns and cities, each vendor had a specific noisemaker to 

> signify his presence and his wares in the neighborhood.

 

F. Norman Vickers

Jazz Society of Pensacola

www.jazzpensacola.com


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