“Oboe: an ill wind that nobody blows good.” — Unknown, sometime around 1929.
Hahahahahahahahahaha!
But, I love the sound of a well played Oboe or Bassoon. Then again, I enjoy well played bagpipes, too! (Bagpipes do cause some people to rip their hair out, no matter how well played!)
"The Pipes! The Pipes!"
"A search through the chaos of the web rapidly reveals that it has been speculatively attributed to at least a dozen people: Sir Thomas Beecham, Ambrose Bierce, Bennett Cerf, Ornette Coleman, Johnny Dankworth, Duke Ellington, Sylvia Fine, Danny Kaye, Laurence McKinney, Ogden Nash, George Bernard Shaw, and Mark Twain."
I seem to remember it from some Hemingway novel or more likely "In Harms way".
The worst wind "insturment" is a cheap tin whistle in the hands of a 5 year old.