STUDENT HILARIOUSLY REDEEMS HIMSELF AFTER FAILING WITH THE CYMBALS DURING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM

One might think that not much could go wrong for the band member charged with playing the cymbals. But for an Illinois junior high student playing the clashing instrument during a school’s concert, something did go wrong, and he reacted in the only way he felt appropriate for the time.

The Eisenhower Junior High student at the school’s “Red and White” concert last month accidentally dropped one cymbal midway through the National Anthem.

The video of the opening song for the band’s concert doesn’t show what exactly happens to the errant cymbal when it fell to the floor (did it roll away?), but for some reason the boy doesn’t pick it back up.

He instead faces the flag and holds a salute for the rest of the song, as some of his fellow band members try to suppress laughter.

Watch the clip and see if his reaction isn’t endearing — or hilarious — enough to redeem his dropping of the cymbal: