not what I was looking for, but if you can rationalize it to my liking I guess it could work. Here's a little help, This woman would be found in a circus.
my guess she had her head in the piano tuning it while he played, when he jumped up, make piano lid fall on her... one big piano, with one big lid ??? makes since to me lol
well, I'll give it to tektite, reasonably close. the answer was a tight rope walker. Back in the good ole days, tight rope walkers did it blind folded, and without a net. When the music stopped that was their sign that they could step off the rope safely.
bill
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the parachute in the 1600's for entertainment purposes. However, it was reinvented in the late 1700's and it was eventually used for the military.