Ive never had mine fall off, but I was playing tenors once at our feature parade at Disney World last February and my quads broke in half during the parade (near the end thank goodness :\ ). We had just gotten new carriers which came with new attachments to hold the drums together/on the carrier, and whoever put mine together must have done a sloppy job on the one that held the number 1 and 2 drums together. I was just marching and suddenly felt a pop and looked down to see the 2 and 4 drums falling foreword. I had to grab them and hold them together for the remainder of the parade. It was incredibly hard to play with one arm draped over the center of the drums lol.

Me and my line were coming back from band practice and to get back to the school we have to go down a flight of cement stairs and cross the street. I was walking next to my friend when her snare tote broke in half. We just watched as the snare drum bounced all the way down the stairs and rolled across the street. We didnt know what to do but stand there and stare. it was awful!!!

One of our Snares yesterday at Rehearsal, was picking his drum up from the ground to put it on. Well, halfway up, the Snare came off the tote and smacked into the ground. He had to ran two laps around the Driver's Ed course.

Interesting story: I had a pass through of the trumpet section when coming up to do a tenor feature. Unfortunately, the trumpets forgot to leave a large enough hole for me,and it wasn't the first time. So I plowed right into the backs of two trumpet players to teach them a lesson, and they knocked my quads off of my shoulders by accident. Luckily, I caught the carrier and put it back on my shoulders without the drums hitting the ground. I even nailed my feature!

yea we were doing a performance in our auditorium and while playing the cadence and exiting a baritone tripped and the whole band got into a back up. i was able to stop but while playing my solo in the cadence the bass behind me plowed right into me and i had to completely stop playing after recieving the head injury. and yea our cadence does sound horrible without tenors lol

Wow, this post has me feeling woozy...
Here's my nightmare: It happened during lunch while I was practicing on my own. We have Yamaha Tenors, and I pick them up by the carrier when I put them on.
Well, it just so happened that the J-bars weren't all the way into their slots. So I dropped the carrier onto my shoulders, The carrier stopped falling when it reached my shoulders. Unfortunately, the drums didn't. They fell forward and landed on the ground, right on drum 1.
Now drum 1 has a crack in it's shell (but nobody has noticed because the wrap still looks flawless).
Worse yet, I'm only a wannabe drummer (even though I'm the best drummer at my school), so the incident doesn't exactly advance our cause.
My BD still doesn't know about this, so keep quiet...

Never have had anything like THAT happen, but I've seen a few bass drums go rolling...not during a show, though, only during practices. Thank goodness. Incidentally, I have seen someone fall over their drum, if that's an equivalent...our other tenor player had his drums off while practicing sets, backed into them and flipped over. Bent the shoulder bar on the harness 90º.

We've had a major tenor fall during show. It happened when we were at pigskin, that contest that we all worked for at the end of the season. We got on the field and started the show. At the drum break (at the end of the first part of the show) one of our tenors broke. The J-bar was broken and was leaning to one side. He carried the whole thing till we finished our show and marched off the field. After that, we still got a one and we were very happy that he didn't drop them.

Some of these stories sound like they must have sucked when they happened. Fortunately enough, I've never had my tenors fall off or anything; however, at PAS last year, there was this school that had a tenor feature where they put their drums on stands and start doing a weaving thing (kind of cliche, but oh well) it was good until the last few bars, and one of the guys' foot caught the stand. Three of the four tenors fell. It was bad.

During our pre-competition show, I think it's BOA, the support bar that attaches the tenors to the carrier broke during the first minute of our 7 1/2 minute show. I had to carry them for the rest of the show and marching off the track. It wasn't fun, but I stayed in step and formation