Would You Like A Flamethrower Trombone?

By Mark Lorenz on August 24th, 2010

If you’ve ever wanted to invent something that would not only play beautiful music and be incredibly useful during a zombie attack, there is a man you must compete with.

He’s a man who’s invented a flame-throwing trombone. That’s right, one of the most maligned and made-fun of instruments in the history of humanity has been modified to be able to start fires — fires similar to those seen in movies such as Backdraft, Good Morning Vietnam, and the yet-unnamed Band Camp movie. Where murderers have to be defeated with modified instruments that are made into weapons.

Personally, I think everybody who has ever heard a tromboner joke has the right to make other people spontaneously burst into flames. By shooting them with their trombone. In the demo video, the most endearing thing is that the guy who built it introduces it as his home-built flame-throwing trombone. As opposed to the one you could find easily on the shelf of Ace Hardware. The run-of-the-mill flame-shooting trombone.

Thankfully, the trombone still plays, so you will be able to distract whoever is attacking you, or the villagers you’re about to raze with some sweet Spike Jones tunes.

Mad props to the builder. NOW IT’S TIME TO BURN THINGS.