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Won’t have been the entire time. Just during critical points.

> at various times throughout the surgery

Back in high school we did one of those playathon things where a bunch of us band kids basically held a 12-hour jam session as a fundraiser for something or other. About 11 of those 12 hours were cumulatively spent riffing on "Superstition". I was on trombone, and spent most of those hours improvising solos in a desperate yet futile attempt to make it not horrifically repetitive.

I still absolutely loathe that song to this day.

Jazz bassist here. I'd be worried that the surgeon would go to the bathroom, or get another drink, during my solo.

I know you’re joking, but I do wonder how the logistics would work if the guy played upright bass or cello.

I don't imagine it was 9 straight hours but like a song an hour or every half an hour