Is mayonnaise an instrument?

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).

The bong player from Cypress Hill fuckin rips

I’m something of a bong soloist myself.

Bong solo? Bongs are meant to be shared!

I only know of one song that for sure uses a bong “as an instrument” and that’s the bong rip you hear at the beginning of Sublime’s Smoke Two Joints.

But I mean, if they use the sound of hitting one to create music then it’s an instrument as far as I am concerned.

That depends. Is a sampler an instrument?

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?

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

“Watermelon Man” by Herbie Hancock has a beer bottle solo credited to Bill Summers.

alright. So.

I gotta ask…

how high are you (were you?)

also, just to actually answer the question, if it’s played as an instrument, it’s an instrument. Anvils have been instruments (See that thing in Andor. that’s an instrument.) Saws, too. Wine glasses. (both, by playing the rim, as well as breaking them as a sort of percussive instrument.). Even your desk when you’re bored out of your skull waiting for that one email to come in so you can do your job. (rapatap tap, smack rapatap tap, thunk.)

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.

Do you mean “bongo” out “gong” ?