Image courtesy of Iamnee at FreeDigitalPhotos.net There have now been a few published case reports where playing a wind instrument caused a persistent cough ... one of which ended in death. Report in 2010 described a trombone player whose chronic cough for over 15 years was ultimately found to be due to a mold called fusarium as well as mycobacterium (cousin to TB) found growing inside his trombone. Each time he inhaled while playing the trombone, these germs inside his trombone was caus…