Bazooka (instrument)

This article is about the instrument. For the rocket launcher named after it, see Bazooka. For other uses, see Bazooka (disambiguation).
Bazooka
Bob Burns with a bazooka, the instrument he invented
Brass instrument
Classification
Hornbostel–Sachs classification423.22
(Sliding aerophone sounded by lip movement)

The bazooka is a brass musical instrument several feet in length which incorporates telescopic tubing like the trombone. Radio comedian Bob Burns is credited with inventing the instrument in the 1910s, and popularized it in the 1930s. It was also played by jazz musicians Noon Johnson and Sanford Kendrick.[1]

  1. ^ The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture