The Spoons
The spoons are a similar class of animal. Ordinary kitchen spoons - whether soup spoons or dessert spoons - seem quite adequate for the job, though many fanatical spoons players will go to inordinate lengths to get weapons of the right material, weight, and resonance the handles, similarly, will be customized by paring with files and wrapping with various kinds of tape. The spoons are played by gripping them between the fingers of one hand and beating them against an object such as the other hand, the knees, the table, or, as I have witnessed on several occasions, armpits, shoes, and other people's heads. Spoons players are to be admired for their resourcefulness: should their instruments happen to be mislaid, or stolen, they will resort to clicking two bottles together or rattling a handful of loose change; unhappily, decimal coinage has not got the same satisfying ring as the old copper pennies.