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	Bazooka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The bazooka weapon was one of the first anti-tank weapons based on the HEAT shell to enter service, used by the United States Armed Forces in World War II and the Korean War.
		It was nicknamed "bazooka" from a vague resemblance to the musical instrument of the same name (see: bazooka (instrument)).
		Bazookas were replaced in some roles by 57 mm and 75 mm recoilless rifles in the last battles of WWII (1945).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bazooka (754 words)

	Brass instrument - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A brass instrument is a musical instrument whose tone is produced by vibration of the lips as the player blows into a tubular resonator (mouthpiece).
		Such instruments were difficult to play and became obsolete with the invention of the valve, though have had a renaissance with the growth of the early music movement.
		By making the instrument about twice as long as the equivalent woodwind instrument and starting with the second harmonic, players can get a good range of notes simply by varying the tension of their lips (see embouchure).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brass_instrument (638 words)

	Bazooka (instrument) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The bazooka is a folk musical instrument, a primitive version of a (A brass instrument consisting of a long tube whose length can be varied by a U-shaped slide) trombone, usually with a lower but less wide range.
		The bazooka was popularized in the (The decade from 1930 to 1939) 1930s by (A communication system based on broadcasting electromagnetic waves) radio comedian Bob Burns, who may have invented the instrument some 20 years earlier.
		The bazooka has sometimes been confused with a different novelty instrument, the (A toy wind instrument that has a membrane that makes a sound when you hum into the mouthpiece) kazoo; kazoos have sometimes been referred to as "bazookas", especially in (additional info and facts about British English) British English.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/ba/bazooka_(instrument).htm (236 words)

	Bazooka -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This article is about the "bazooka" anti-tank (Any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting) weapon.
		Prior to the war the US Army had developed a (additional info and facts about shaped-charge) shaped-charge (A grenade designed to be thrown by hand) hand grenade for anti-tank use that was effective at defeating up to 100mm of armor, by far the best such weapon in the world at the time.
		By the time of the Korean War an even larger M20 Super Bazooka with a 2lb (900 g) 3.5 in (89 mm) warhead was starting to enter service, which could penetrate well over 200 mm of armor and had an extended range of about 150 m.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/ba/bazooka.htm (353 words)

	BRASS INSTRUMENT FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A brass instrument is a musical_instrument whose tone is produced by vibration of the lips as the player blows into a tubular resonator (mouthpiece).
		Keyed or Fingered brass instruments used holes along the body of the instrument, which were covered by fingers or by finger-operated pads (keys) in a similar way to a woodwind_instrument.
		One interesting difference between a woodwind_instrument and a brass instrument is that woodwind instruments are non-directional.
	www.witwib.com /brass_instrument (609 words)

	BAZOOKA
		The Rocket Launcher, 3.5-inch or 2.36-inch (Bazooka) was first used by the U.S. Army in World War II as an anti-tank weapon or as an offensive weapon against fixed defenses.
		The M9 bazooka, introduced in June 1943, was a major redesign and improvement of the original weapon.
		Bazookas are a crew served weapon with a two-man team, gunner (aim/fire) and loader (ammo prep/loading).
	www.olive-drab.com /od_infweapons_bazooka.php (782 words)

	Bazooka (chewing gum) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The gum was packaged in a patriotic red, white, and blue color scheme, although Topps claims that it took the name from the instrument, not the weapon.
		Beginning in 1953, Topps changed the packaging to include small comic strips with the gum, featuring the character "Bazooka Joe".
		Virtually unchanged in over 50 years, Bazooka remains a popular brand of chewing gum.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bazooka_%28chewing_gum%29 (118 words)

	Brass instrument (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A brass instrument is a musical instrument that uses a cupped mouthpiece shaped in a way that allows the player's lips to vibrate to generate the instrument's sound.
		The main instrument in this famility is the trombone (although some valve trombones are also made) and the slide trombone's ancestor the sackbut.
		The trumpet, trombone, French horn, and tuba are the brass instruments most often found in a symphony orchestra.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/brass_instrument (650 words)

	Bazooka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The bazoooka is a folk musical instrument, a rather primitive version of a trombone, usually with a lower but less wide range.
		The bazooka could be found in all theatres of war during World War II, and was used until the Korean War when it was then replaced by newer weapons such as the LAW in time for the Viet Nam War.
		To the portraits of Columbus hanging in the gallery of one's imagination with the royal standard and the Admiral's flag flying from his masthead,.
	www.termsdefined.net /ba/bazooka.html (642 words)

	Wacky Wobbler Database - Bazooka Joe
		Bazooka, with its distinctive name, taste, and red, white and blue logo and packaging, soon became a familiar part of Americana.
		Bazooka is also famous for the popular series of Bazooka Joe comics, first introduced in 1953 to add extra interest for youngsters.
		Bazooka itself is now available in a variety of flavors and forms, including Original, Grape, and Strawberry, as well as Sugarless Bazooka.
	www.justanotherfunkoobserver.com /Funko/BazookaJoe.html (310 words)

	BASSOON-PATRICIA'S BASSOON WORLD
		The bassoon is an ancient instrument having it's roots in a renaissance instrument called the dulcian.
		The bassoon was a relatively new instrument in the early eighteenth century.
		Most wind instruments, such as a clarinet, use a single reed; on a bassoon, as with the oboe, the player blows between two reeds that are fixed together and vibrate against each other.
	www.cybertoads.com /bassoon/bassoon.html (1332 words)

	Brass instrument - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Brass instruments are usually, but not invariably, made of brass.
		Similarly, in musical terms, not all instruments constructed from brass belong in the category of "brass instruments"; a notable example is the saxophone, which, although usually made of brass, is a woodwind instrument.
		Valved brass instruments use a set of valves (typically 3 or 4 but as many as 7 or more in some cases) operated by the player's fingers that introduce a additional lengths of tubing into the instrument, changing its overall length.
	www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Brass_instrument (408 words)

	Bazooka (instrument) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		From the mouthpiece the air chamber goes into wide lengths of pipe of sizes so that the wider diameter pipe can slidearound the narrower one, lengthening or shortening the instrument to change the pitch.
		The bazooka was popularized in the 1930s by radio comedian Bob Burns, who may have invented the instrumentsome 20 years earlier.
		The bazooka has sometimes been confused with a different novelty instrument, the kazoo ; kazoos have sometimes been referred to as "bazookas", especially in British English.
	www.therfcc.org /bazooka-instrument--50963.html (148 words)

	Encyclopedia: Bazooka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Prior to the war the US Army had developed a shaped-charge hand grenade for anti-tank use that was effective at defeating up to 100 mm (4 in) of armor, by far the best such weapon in the world at the time.
		The Bazooka (2.36-inch) in its various models served in all theatres of the Second World War and later in the Korean War.
		The M-20 was in turn supplanted by the LAW (Light anti-tank weapon) in the opening stages of the Vietnam War.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Bazooka (1916 words)

	Bob "Bazooka" Burns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Bazooka the Weapon was invented in 1941 by an army officer named Skinner.
		Here's one of those toy bazookas on the right, photographed at the Bob Burns exhibit which is on display at the Van Buren Visitors Center, which is the old train station downtown.
		The word "bazooka" was coined by Burns himself as an onomatopoeic description of the sound made by the instrument.
	users.aristotle.net /~russjohn/burns.html (1036 words)

	EMI Back Issues Volumes 5 & 6, 6/1989-4/1991
		Ward Hartenstein: On gourd instruments and "hand-print intonation" (w/photos).
		Stringed instruments, both acoustic and electric, predominate among the instruments he has made, mostly in the form of zithers and slide guitars (he was originally an electric guitarist).
		A number of their principal instruments are described: end-struck pipes (racks of large PVC {polyvinyl chloride} pipes, each struck over the open end with a ping-pong-paddle-like bat), tuned tongue bamboo (bamboo tongue drums, inspired by the boo of Harry Partch), tuned chimes (generally utilizing commercially available chimes), and tuned drums (roto-toms).
	www.windworld.com /back_issues/bi5-6.htm (6685 words)

	Bazooka El8a Hp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		See Bazooka (instrument) for the musical instrument for which this weapon was named, and Bazooka (chewing gum) for the chewinggum.
		The bazooka weapon was one of the first anti- tank weapons based on the HEAT shell to enter service, used by the United States Armed Forces in World WarII.
		The bazooka could be found in all theatres of war during World WarII, and was used until the Korean War when it was then replaced by newerweapons such as the LAW in time for the Vietnam War.
	www.referenceresearch.com /some/22031-bazooka-el8a-hp.html (604 words)

	How to Make Yourself a Hall's High-Tech Slide Bazooka
		The musical bazooka is a relative of the trombone, serpent, ophicleide, bass horn, baritone, euphonium, and tuba.
		The bazooka is a low-pitched, chromatic, lip reed wind instrument characterized by a brassy, whiny, and punchy tenor-to-bass sound.
		But it is true that despite the bazooka’s distinctive tone, fairly wide range, and it's ease of use in the hands of virtually any competent low brass player, it has been taken up to date by very few musicians.
	www.geocities.com /scottfranklinhall/bazooka.html (1601 words)

	2.36 inch Rocket Launcher M9A1 "Bazooka" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The launcher was nicknamed the "bazooka" after a musical instrument used by the entertainer Bob Burns.
		The bazooka was advantageous in that it was light in weight, yet had plenty of punch for armor and other hard targets such as bunkers.
		The first version of the bazooka was the M1A1, which was a continuous tube design.
	www.robertsarmory.com /bazooka.htm (197 words)

	WW2mackinawjacket.page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This soldier is armed with the M1, Launcher, Rocket or more commonly known as the "Bazooka." The name came from the resemblance to a musical instrument used by a well-know radio comedian at the time.
		Although unreliable at times, the bazooka gave the infantryman some of the benefits of light artillery against enemy tanks and fortified positions.
		The rocket from a bazooka could penetrate 5 inches of armor.
	www.tekawiz.com /WW2mackinawjacket.html (235 words)

	Issue of January 15, 2002
		Bazookas are actually quite mellifluous instruments, once you get the proper range and elevation, and far more musically flexible than Mozart's beloved mortar or Beethoven's raucous Gatling Gun.
		Although today we know the "bazooka" as a very effective anti-tank weapon, a sort of tubular rocket-launcher fired from the shoulder of an infantry soldier, the original "bazooka" was, if not entirely harmless, considerably more benign.
		This "bazooka" was apparently a sort of crude, homemade trombone, reportedly made from two pieces of stovepipe and a funnel.
	www.word-detective.com /011502.html (5754 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It was named after the humorous musical instrument which entertainer Bob Burns had fashioned from two gas pipes and a funnel in the 1930s.
		With its red, white and blue colors, Bazooka Joe gum brings deliciousness, hilarity, and patriotism all wrapped into a hard piece of chewable candy.
		They say that Bazooka Joe has 20/20 vision in both eyes and was merely equipped with a patch to give him a distinctive look.
	filebox.vt.edu /n/nieder/bryan/Index.html (154 words)

	WWII Bazooka
		A bazooka resembles a big tube, but is held like a gun.
		Bazookas are used against tanks and are sometimes used by a squad in the field.
		Anthony Lewis takes you through the process of building your own bazooka, from constructing the cartridge, barrel, grip and sights to mixing the propellant and igniter to assembling, loading and test-firing.
	www.jodavidsmeyer.com /combat/military/weapons-bazooka.html (196 words)

	Bazooka (instrument) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Bazooka (instrument) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Bazooka_%28instrument%29 (178 words)

	GALLERY THREE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		His own radio program was called"The Arkansas Traveler"....He made the name "Bazooka" famous when he invented an instrument that was played much like the DIGIRIDOO except that his instrument had a slide.
		The "KAZOOED BAZOOKA" is a scaled down version of the BAZOOKA with a KAZOO membrane inside and is played by humming rather than blowing.
		I have seen and heard the BAZOOKA played by Ormly Gumfudgin and it is a very painful experience for both player and audience.
	www.captainkazoo.com /gal3.html (106 words)

	WWIIReenacting.co.uk :: View topic - M20 Bazooka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The bazooka worked by firing a shaped charge rocket warhead out of a simple open-ended tube.
		Deployed to troops in 1942, the bazooka was most effectively employed by a two-man team, with one man serving as a gunner, and the other working to reload and rearm rockets.
		The M9A1 Bazooka was withdrawn from service after World War II and replaced by the more powerful M20 Bazooka.
	www.wwiireenacting.co.uk /forum/archive/o_t__t_5376__m20-bazooka.html (547 words)

	Saving Private Ryan: M1A1 and M9A1 bazooka
		Named after a homemade musical instrument used by radio comedian Bob Burns, the bazooka was a shoulder-fired anti-tank rocket launcher.
		Bazookas supplied to the Russians were eventually captured by German forces and served as the basis for German anti-tank rocket launchers such as the Panzerschreck.
		Another item named after Burn's musical instrument (and not the weapon) was Topps' Bazooka bubble gum, which was first introduced after the end of World War II.
	www.sproe.com /b/bazooka.html (393 words)

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