That’s a decent joke.
Can anyone trump it?
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Bruce Springsteen aka the bass would agree
This only works because accordion is close according, not because they sound alike which is what everyone is attempting in these comments.
This is similar to the phenomena that allows jumbled words to be read, it's about context clues not puns.
Explicitly not "random", but admittedly funny.
More like can't see without glasses and only look lemmy in my bed at night. I onlu see 30%
wow... i had to read that 3 times before i found the instrument....
english is my first language...
Ditto
First read was a normal read. Second read, I thought the joke was that there wasn't an instrument. I had to come to the comments before I saw it lmao
This joke makes me want to commit violins
Reading this on my shamisen from Tokyo to Kyoto
I noticed right away, thanks to my ASD super power I guess
I have autism and I didn't notice that
That's why its a spectrum, we are not all the same
AuADHD reporting in. I got caught re-reading the first part but for a while trying to figure out what neat thing about free-reed instruments was going on, before eventually reading to the end and realizing that its presence was the joke.
More or less my experience!
You ever have phone sax?
Ever had sax on phone?
As one cursed with an illiterate fuckwit for a brain-hole, any word can be either a random musical instrument or summon a demon, like fun little Schrodinger surprises. Just kinda gotta roll with it after a while