[zcrackerz]

I was in a pretty competitive high school marching band. We had two parallel lines moving in opposite directions, and I watched the slide of a trombone get its spit valve caught on someones shoulder strap and pulled off. The trombone player kept on making the motions as if the slide was still there, and the other marcher-with-trombone-slide-still-attached continued on until the end of the show. Fortunately we were in the last movement, but the point is that the show must go on.

[Nannooskeeska]

As my middle school band director once said, "Even if I let go of my baton and it stabs someone through the eye, you must keep playing!"