Those males who straddle the overgrown violin can now relax.
“Cello scrotum” is a fictitious malady. Thank goodness.
The two British pranksters who invented the condition 30 years ago are now playing a different tune.
In 1974 the couple — one of them a doctor — read a letter written to the British Medical Journal referring to “guitar nipple,” and decided to have some fun. They composed a similar letter about “cello scrotum."
Imagine their surprise when they saw the condition referenced recently in a BMJ article called “A symphony of maladies,” which referred to such orchestrated ailments as “fiddler’s neck,” “flautist’s chin,” and “cellist’s chest.”
They figured it was time to come clean, and did so in another letter to BMJ.
But let me tell you about my harmonica lips …
