Challenge Accepted
This makes me cry.
Musicians go to great lengths to perfect their art.
In high school, we played Tchaikovsky’s famous 1812 overture, also known commonly as the one piece with cannons as a percussion piece. However, as a high school production, we obviously couldn’t afford to wheel in cannons to fire off in our school auditorium. But my orchestra director was not satisfied with using ordinary plebeian drums to play the cannon part.
So instead, we hired policemen to fire shotgun blanks into a trash can in the pit for our winter concert. Everyone was satisfied.
I swear, composers must put stuff like that into their works to troll the musicians and see how far they’re willing to go