Bazooka

The bazooka is a member of the brass (Hornbostel–Sachs 423.22). Its invention is credited to Bob Burns. Learn how it makes its sound and explore related instruments.

How the bazooka makes its sound

In the Hornbostel–Sachs system, which classifies instruments by how they produce sound, the bazooka belongs to the brass (lip-vibrated aerophones): the player's buzzing lips set the air column vibrating – trumpets, horns, trombones, tubas and the didgeridoo.

More broadly it is one of the aerophones (wind instruments), where sound comes from vibrating air.

Players shape its sound through technique and materials; the resonating body filters the raw vibration, boosting some harmonics and damping others.

From Wikipedia

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.