I recently videoed myself removing tangled web and hair from the legs of a huntsman spider with a pair of tweezers. What I didn’t expect or hear at the time was the sound the spider made and I’m 90% sure it was the spider. I have searched online but only found one other reference to a specific species which this was not and was other video of someone removing a huntsman from their house when it apparently made a noise. I’m probably not asking the right question? Mine was a blurry video as I was probably trembling in anticipation of it jumping on me 
Never the less I’m curious to know if anyone else has ‘heard’ spiders? I’m a bit wary of uploading it as call because it was probably yelling at me to get lost rather than singing it’s thanks to me.
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You may find some of these papers on sound production in spiders useful: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=sound+production+in+spiders&btnG=
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Several spiders make noise by stridulation, or rubbing body parts together. It sounds like a buzz or hiss and can be used both in defensive situations and courtship. I’ve mostly heard of its occurrence in large tarantula species and wolf spiders, but I would not be surprised if huntsmen are included as well. A brief look at literature shows that at least one species produces sound by abdomen vibration during courtship: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3705191.
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