Dad jokes
Music
8 jokes, all of them clean
Music jokes are a small page and a specialised one. Trom-bone, playing by ear, Haydn behind something. Half of these need you to know a composer's name, which cuts the audience considerably.
Why did the pianist keep banging his head on the keys? He was playing by ear.
What's a skeleton's favorite instrument? The trom-bone.
Why couldn't the string quartet find their composer? He was Haydn.
What kind of music are balloons afraid of? Pop music.
Why do fish make great musicians? They know their scales.
What's Beethoven's favorite fruit? Ba-na-na-naaa.
Why was the metronome such a great friend? You could always count on it.
What rock group has four men who don't sing? Mount Rushmore.
Instrument names hide other words
Trombone contains bone. Bass is a fish. Notes, keys, sharp, flat, scale, chord and beat all have common meanings outside music. That gives the page more material than 8 jokes suggests. The composer ones are a different animal — Haydn only works if you know how the name is pronounced, which is a real barrier and the reason this topic stays small on purpose.
Best told to someone who plays
This is the one page here aimed at a narrower room. Play the piano one to somebody who took lessons and it lands properly. Play it to somebody who did not and you will be explaining what playing by ear means, which is the death of any joke. Know which room you are in before you open this page.
The one to actually use
The rock group with 4 men who do not sing. It is the only joke on this page that needs no musical knowledge whatsoever, which on a page this specialised makes it the useful one. Rock group means 2 completely different things and both are literally true of Mount Rushmore. The Haydn one is the better joke and will land with roughly 1 person in 20.
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