Is mayonnaise an instrument?
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Is a tambourine?
My first instinct was to say yes, but then I remembered the bong sound isn’t really modulated in the song. So it’s more like a sound effect like police sirens.
Funny enough, I do consider a basketball a percussion instrument since it is bounced to a beat in some songs (I’m showing my 90s kid age here lol).
I’m something of a bong soloist myself.
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So is music.
Ergo: A Bong is a music instrument. Case closed.
The bong player from Cypress Hill fuckin rips
That depends. Is a sampler an instrument?
I really want to say no but I think it’s the wrong answer.
emphatically yes
Yes. It is an instrument used in the consumption of drugs.
Or do you mean musical instrument? TL;DR: It can be.
It comes down to how wide you want the definition of “musical instrument” to be. Is a drumstick a musical instrument? Is it what makes a drum designed to be played with sticks an instrument? What is such a drum without at least one stick?
“Well I could hit the drum with something else.” Sure, but does that make the “something else” the instrument?
What is a woodwind (musical) instrument without the player’s breath? A saxophone without a reed?
“I could smack it on something.”
Well, yes, that’s the crux of it.
In the loosest sense, anything that can be used to make a noise is a musical instrument. Take the popular joke of mayonnaise: if you put a straw in it and blow, I’m willing to bet some sort of noise can be had.
This then brings in the other argument: what counts as musical?
You bring up a great point. What is anything?
Pain. Suffering. Cake?
Yes. It is a percussive instrument similar to cymbals.
Depends on the bong?
A bong can be a load of stuff.
That said, now waiting to see a hookah pipe solo
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Beautiful
“Watermelon Man” by Herbie Hancock has a beer bottle solo credited to Bill Summers.
That’s definitely an instrument.
Lots of non traditional instruments get called for in concerts. I played a song that called for drumming on upturned metal trash cans in high school.
I was in band, and marching band was mandatory.
I did not try out, as I did not want to participate in that part of the band experience.
So I was part of the “front ensemble” which is shit you can’t march with. Timpani drums, etc.
We had an L frame rack with wheels that had all sorts of crap on it, half of it made in some garage before I joined.
We called it the ghetto rack.
I had a solo on what were essentially tanks that had the bottom cut off and an attachment point welded on top hung by rope.
So yeah, if you can hit it and make a sound, it becomes a percussion instrument.
Do you mean “bongo” out “gong” ?
