The vuvuzela, South Africa's secret weapon at the World Cup, has won another reprieve.
Employed to deafening success at Thursday night's clash between Bafana Bafana and Colombia, Fifa will wait for the opening match at Soccer City on June 11, before considering recent suggestions from concerned fans to hand out earplugs at any of the 64 games or ban it.
The key test had been whether the plastic trumpet would interfere with either the running of the game by the referee or with the broadcast.
On Thursday organising committee boss Danny Jordaan warned that although the vuvuzela was an instrument of joy, it would be banned summarily from all games if it was ever used to incite violence.
"If it lands on the pitch in any game, it will be banned from all other games afterwards," he said.
The vuvuzela has sparked international fury ever since the world was introduced to it at last year's Confederations Cup.
At the Confederations Cup last year, Spain midfielder Xabi Alonso asked Fifa to ban vuvuzelas after the European champions battled to beat Iraq. "Those trumpets? That noise, I don't like. It is not distracting, but it is not nice to have a noise like that."
Earlier this month, Bryan Robson, Thailand's coach, complained that the cacophony made it impossible to communicate with players on the field, but it was also a great motivator for the home side.
"I think the noise generated by the vuvuzelas will be a big plus for South Africa in the World Cup. If 30 000 vuvuzelas can make such a racket, what will 90 000 be able to do when South Africa play in the World Cup? That will be something South Africa's opponents will have to try to overcome," he said.
The 90 000 fans who crowded into Soccer City on Thursday night tried to prove him right, but moves are afoot to get the vuvuzela banned - this time on health grounds.
It is something Fifa is now looking into, even going as far as to investigate providing ear plugs for fans who demand them rather than face being hit with a medical suit for not protecting their hearing.
For Jordaan, though, South African fans' right to take vuvuzelas into the stadiums is not absolute.
"They have to show discipline, like not blowing them during the national anthems at the start of a game, or showing disrespect when officials, presidents or kings are introduced to the fans."