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Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2026-07-27 16:13
In my kitchen yesterday, while warming up my sound, meandering my way upward through different registers, a smallish grayish-brown spider suddenly dropped from the ceiling on a strand of web and hung suspended right at the level of my face, directly in front of my chair about a meter away. I continued wamup for a minute or so longer, watching it; the spider stayed where it was. At a reasonable stopping point I stood, reached up with one hand and interrupted the strand of web, and carried it and the dependent spider out the front door. I lowered the spider to the ground and brushed the web off my hand. The spider crawled off; I went back inside and resumed practice.
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Author: ruben
Date: 2026-07-27 16:53
Were you practicing "le Festin de l'Araignée" by Albert Rousel?
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Post Edited (2026-07-27 16:54)
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Author: Neil
Date: 2026-07-27 18:40
Perhaps it would have been a good moment to play "Boris the Spider."
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Author: Bog_Roll
Date: 2026-08-08 13:35
How very appropriate, that you are now posting this story on the web...!!
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Author: ruben
Date: 2026-08-08 13:47
Bog: bravo! -at first I didn't get the joke. -it's a good one.
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Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2026-08-08 14:41
Ah, the world-wide web . . . who is the prisoner, the fly that was free or the spider who must weave?
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Author: Tom H
Date: 2026-08-13 05:50
That would totally freak me out. Spiders are my one BIG phobia. On a lighter side, I was playing an outside concert last week when a big drop of rain fell from the trees right onto my glasses while I was playing. I could deal with that....
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Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2026-08-13 17:02
Hi Tom. Playing outdoors certainly can feature distractions, if not interruptions. I've had a bug land on the back of my neck and crawl under my collar. That quickly became a critical distraction, but the music freed one hand to deal with it so that I didn't miss any notes. At an outdoor concert years ago, I was counting rests with my clarinet on my lap, and an excited dog running across in front of the band lapped my reed as he went by. That happened right at the end of the rests, and I had to pick my instrument up and play. What else? - oh, marching in parades with the horses up front. Distracting.
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