So I'm our school's bassoonist, so you might be able to see where this is going already
It wasn't during a concert, but we were recording ourselves for reference in the future, and mind you this was last year in 8th grade.
We were in the middle of bohemian Rhapsody, in the last quite part before it got loud, and my bocal started doing the bubbly thing that happens when there's too much spit or whatever in there
Since I didn't have any rests long enough to get that stuff OUT of there, I just had to play with it in, so my bassoon starting making all sorts of popping noises every time I played. Once I got to a place where I had enough rests to take off the reed and empty the bocal, I did that.
Now I have to explain a bit of bassoon anatomy. Bassoon is a double reeded instrument, meaning that it is the reed alone that produces the sound, not the reed against a mouthpiece. On a bassoon, the reed goes onto a piece of metal called the bocal, which if you ever look at a bassoon is the curved piece of metal that comes of the musician's side of the instrument. When this gets clogged with spit, the only two ways to empty it are to take it off and kinda jerk it around or to take the reed off and manually suck the spit out.
So I sucked the spit out, since I only had like five or so measures of rests. I did what I usually do, take the reed off and suck the condensation and stuff out of the bocal. But you gotta remember, reeds get wet if you've played them long enough. So when I went to put it back on the instrument, it fell and bounced away to the front row, and I was two rows behind that. My case with all my reeds in it was in the back of the room. So I couldn't play the incredibly important bassoon bassline
Well mean you could also count the one time during the 2021 competitive marching season when it started pouring on my ELECTRONIC keyboard three hours before leaving for a competition and we had to figure out how to use a completely different keyboard instead and still be able to play without issues at the competition, where it started sprinkling
