Scrotumgate

[Carol Haynes]

Budding male cellists can heave a sigh of relief :

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/exposed-the-myth-of-cello-scrotum-1517846.html

[mahesh2k]

Baroness Elaine Murphy, a cross-bench peer and former Professor of Psychiatry at Guy's Hospital, has confessed to manufacturing a medical condition which only existed in her imagination.

[tomos]

what about the poor guitar players lol

[40hz]

Thanks Carol!

I always wanted to study the cello, but hesitated due to concerns about my health

[cranioscopical]

This thread reminds me of the remark, attributed to Sir Thomas Beecham, addressed to a lady cellist with whose rehearsal performance he was displeased.

What did he say?

“Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands - and all you can do is scratch it”

[Carol Haynes]

ROFL - what a brilliant comment. (Name dropping I knew his son ... albeit many years ago)

[cranioscopical]

Name dropping I knew his son ... albeit many years ago

Small world, and I've taken his Little Liver Pills 

[xtabber]

He is also credited with:

Mary had a little watch
She swallowed it one day
She took a box of Beecham's Pills
To pass the time away.

(in response to someone asking him whether he was embarrassed by the advertising jingles for Beecham's pills)