I would like to think PDQ DID invent this thing. He was some sort of influence on me for many years, always not for the best.
The instrument comes up for discussion every so often. I believe it is a reed instrument, which would make it raucous by nature.
More practicsl to carry around than an Alpenhorn, though.
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Dave Rafferty
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55 Roth by Reynolds Cornet
73 Olds Ambassador Cornet
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