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.)
Yes. It is a percussive instrument similar to cymbals.
Do you mean “bongo” out “gong” ?
I’m something of a bong soloist myself.
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.