Difficult to be tardy in this case

By the time everyone had gotten their instruments, tuned up prior to the actual class tuning, and spoken with the high school orchestra director about a piece they'd heard, what they expect college life might be like, or a piece of art they'd seen at a museum, it often seemed as though at least 10 minutes had elapsed.  I always liked that aspect of orchestra class.  You knew class would start eventually but not within a nanosecond of the bell ringing, as in other classes.