A trombone player before the English court

Auguste Henri Jacob is a spiritualist healer who fled the siege of Paris in 1870 to settle in London. Decades later, in 1909, he told the newspaper Le Petit Parisien that he had met with immense success among the British aristocracy. To convince the organizer of the court's musical evenings of his talents, he allegedly performed the cavatina from The Barber of Seville with virtuosity on a C trombone.