Dick, sometimes it just happens! My wife Francie is an excellent rhythmic if relatively quiet spoons player.
A few years ago, playing in a Wigtown pub at the Book Festival one afternoon, it was going fine, as was the booze. I was 'giving it rice' when a young woman who'd had too many Bacardi Breezers came over & shoved my shoulder- saying 'Play quieter you, I cannae hear the spoons for ye'...