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Someone's 3 year-old is curious about your instrument.
Someone will come over and try to touch your instrument while you are playing.
The power has gone out.
Someone will turn off the lights randomly while we play.
The people who hired you didn't know you had to read sheet music.
There are no stands.
It's super windy or the AC kicks on and all your music is blowing off the stand.
Someone will flip your music.
A fight breaks out between audience members and turns into an all-out brawl.
Escape with your instruments while playing your dramatic exit music. (Strolling Strings)
The venue did not provide chairs for you to sit in.
Play standing the whole time.
You are arranged in an ✨aesthetic✨ formation for pictures.
Sit/stand far away from each other.
Someone forgot the tempo.
Spin wheel to see which section plays twice as fast.
You've been stung by a bee and lost your place in the music.
Stop playing for a 10 seconds and close your eyes, then try to jump back in with your group.
Your string snaps and you don't have a replacement.
Spin to see what string broke. Play your music without that string.
Photographer wants close ups and keeps getting in between you and the stand.
Someone from another group will block your view of the music.
As you unpack your instrument, you discover you forgot your bow at home.
Spin wheel to see which section plays without bow.
Even though the event said no children allowed, someone brought their baby.
There's always that one baby in the audience. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3glwtXrj0c&ab_channel=UmurK%C4%B1l%C4%B1%C3%A7
You forgot your shoulder rest/chair strap at home.
Play without shoulder rests/chair straps.