Falling down
A friend of mine played percussion in an orchestra touring Austria. She was right at the back, and therefore top, of steeply raked seating for the musicians. Two staircases led to the top, at the end of one of which were the tubular bells.

At one point she had to come in with a bit of bellage. With the first wallop, the string holding them broke and the entire set went cartwheeling end-over-end down the stairs. Apparently it is quite difficult for an orchestra to maintain concentration when that happens.
(ubergeekian, Fri 7 Dec 2012, 20:35, Reply)