came up in my fb memories, something I found on Jochre Yiddish OCR search in 2020 when looking for mentions of tsimbls (cimbaloms), the the boasting of a cantor from a satirical short story:

"My neck — a fiddle
my throat — a tsimbl
and I myself am a whole orchestra
When I pray, people fall like flies"

Source: Frehlikhe minuṭen Vol. 2, B.B. Kovner, 1919.
https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/collections/yiddish-books/spb-nybc209702/kovner-b-frehlikhe-minuten-gekliebene-humoristishe-ertsehlungen-vol-2?book-page=171&book-mode=1up
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