To yesterday’s posting “Hybrid referent, portmanteau name” (mostly about the flumpet, with a bit on the fluba), Robert Coren added a comment about Peter Schickele / P.D.Q. Bach and his invention, the tromboon: (#1) The tromboon is a musical instrument made up of the reed and bocal of a bassoon, attached to the body of … Continue reading That bastard mongrel half-breed, the tromboon