I've heard a few bizarre and absurd things in my life, but this is certainly one of the most incredible of these!
But Mr. H., is it not impressed upon us all even in the nursery that
a) it does not do to bring foreign objects to the mouth (
"put that down - dirty!") and
b) the blowing, bubbling,
et cetera of infant-life - in other words, the production of noise orally - loses its charm after say the second year?
Thus these blown instruments represent the stubborn, untamed, unrefined, unrighteous, dark, unseemly, perverse, cabbalistical aspect of musical expression. Many composers - especially Shtrahfinsky of course but by no means only he - have I think understood this. Just think of Mozart and his trombones!
As Mrs. Carlyle wrote:
"There arose a shrill, clear sound; the strange instrument was a 'clarionet.'"