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by bsimpson 388 days ago
My dad's hobby when I was a kid was playing the saxophone.

Bunch of wind instrument legends started dying relatively young around that time, and he went "yeah… no."

(Granted, he wasn't doing drugs and alcohol like musicians probably do, but it was still enough to scare him away.)

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You had me wondering if wind-playing itself has unfortunate cognitive effects. (This seems just barely plausible, since you spend a lot of time breathing funny if you play a wind instrument.)