Spool[1] is a Canadian record label which was founded 1997 in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.

In the play, Krapp becomes fascinated by the word "spool" and repeats it several times.

On December 27, 2001, Spool was given national notice in an article in The Globe and Mail by Canadian jazz critic Mark Miller, who said "It's work supported not by the majors, but by smaller companies – as small as Uxbridge, Ont., label Spool which released two of the most interesting Canadian CDs of 2001, West Coast guitarist Tony Wilson's melancholic Lowest Note and a boisterous collaboration between George Lewis and Vancouver's NOW Orchestra, The Shadowgraph Series.

Mark Miller, in Jazz Education Journal[3] wrote: "And consider Canada's most active independent record labels, Ambiances Magnetiques and Effendi in Montreal, Cornerstone in Toronto, Maximum Jazz and Songlines in Vancouver, Spool in Uxbridge, Ontario and Victo in Victoriaville, Quebec.

By and large, their rosters are made up of artists who seem intent on creating vital, interesting and, above all, personal music that draws not on any one tradition, but on many..."[4] [1] Line: noun: a spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent Field: noun: a set of elements such that addition and multiplication are commutative and associative and multiplication is distributive over addition and there are two elements 0 and 1 Arc: noun: the apparent path described above and below the horizon by a celestial body Point: noun: a geometric element that has position but no extension Spurn: verb: reject with disdain or contempt.