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Implements often associated with that of a western table setting, not music!!!
But ever since mankind invented 'the spoon' the 'spoonlad' & 'spoonlassy' has been in existence ever since. It is said that if a good 'spoonboy' joins in a rousing and jovial music session while he's eating his soup, the session would be from that point on spoonified. Not only would it be spoonified but all the musicians in the session be once again covered in soup by the spoon player!!
Why soup I hear you ask, the common 'soup spoon' as those in the field call it is shaped as such to get the most satifying 'clack' from the spoons bowl. The spoon is even designed with age in mind. The invention of the 'tea spoon', 'Spoon' and 'table spoon' allowed for varying hand sizes to use and hold such uncommonly good kitchen 'implement instruments' in a safe manner.
To loose grip of your spoon handles during playing is seen as 'forkyfied playing' frowned upon by those who made the handles. "What is the point of handles if you don't use them?" you will hear them say as you walk between the rows of handle bashers in the steel factorys, and right they are two. It is common knowledge that a 'forkyfied player' has an increased risk of pinning the landlords dog or the landlady to the wall between the eyes with the spoon handles when they leave the hands of the 'forkyfied' players hand and take flight, not good.
So if you see a spoon player in a session first check there is no home cooked soup on the premeses then check the player is not of the 'forkyfied' kind, only then will you know it is safe to enter the session.
By Fo Rkandspoon
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