"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.
Well, Bierce called the accordion “An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.”