As a player of banjo and accordion(button) I have been the butt of ridicule on many occasions, though I'm proud to say I've never played a bodhran.Has any body done a statistical analysis to work out which instrument is the funniest? I was very intrigued to see violas mentioned twice in this thread, an instrument I have never before heard about in a humorous context. It's a bigger world than I thought. Andhow about the earliest musical jokes...I think Shakespeare makes offensive remarks about bagpipes somewhere. And why dont trombones feature more, given their obviously humorous structure and sound? And can drummers be included in this context, or is the thread confined to jokes about musicians?