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Hannah Wildman has been playing percussion in school bands since she was in fifth grade, but it took until her last year of university to get hit in the face during a concert.

Wildman, a fourth-year student at the University of Regina, was playing the snare drum during the University of Regina Wind Ensemble’s performance of Gustav Holst’s First Suite in E Flat at their Dec. 4 concert. Near the end of the first movement, Wildman said she noticed out of the corner of her eye a bass drum mallet streaking towards her head.

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“I didn’t really have time to react,” Wildman said. “I think I might have swore in my head.”

One of her friends and fellow percussionists, Brennan Kowalski, had lost his grip after the third big bass drum strike and the mallet flew right into Wildman’s face.

The mallet hit her in the forehead right over her eye, and the recording of that moment has turned it — and Wildman — into a viral video legend. The video has reportedly been watched on various social media platforms more than 30 million times, and reached the top of Reddit for a short time.