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Wind musicians warned over hygiene as fatal case of 'bagpipe lung' reported

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But doctors say it is not only pipers who should heed the warning to clean their instruments, highlighting previous reports of a saxophone and a trombone player with symptoms of hypersensitivity pneumonitis. Both musicians recovered after cleaning their instruments.

...and I thought listening to those bagpipes were just killing me!!

LOL! Bagpipe Lung! Tuba players are especially prone to exposure to nasty creatures infesting their tubing. To breathe efficiently with the inhaling gulps we take, a certain amount of backpuff will always be occurring. Fungus, petroleum spirits, you name it. Perhaps a regular cleaning of the leadpipe would help.

I've opened old cases, with clarinets and saxes in them, and seen actual mold growing all over the velvet, and inside the horn body. Not good for the lungs.