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So you're an assassin who is also a musician. Unfortunately you're not a [[Musical Assassin]] and cannot [[Power of Rock|kill people with the power of your music alone]]. So what are going to do? Why, have a musical instrument that doubles as a deadly weapon of course. A step up from [[Senseless Violins]], with no danger of your weapon being discovered if anyone opens your case.
Bonus comedy points if a bass guitar [[Not Hyperbole|referred to by the owner as an "axe"]] is used this way.
This trope covers weapons hidden in musical instruments. For assassins who kill their targets with music, see [[Musical Assassin]]. For weapons used as instruments, see [[Instrumental Weapon]].
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* ''[[Blade of the Immortal]]'': The ridiculously skilled Makie Otono-Tachibana, who specializes in [[Waif Fu]], wields a double bladed three-section-staff called Haru-no-Okina concealed in a hollowed-out shamisen, a mandolin-like Japanese instrument which she is able to play when not slicing and dicing her enemies.
* If a Duel Disk counts as a weapon (and it might, given how easily villains in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' can turn the eponymous card game into a [[Deadly Game]]) Romin's base guitar might count. Yuga built this guitar-Disk combination for her as a gift when she started showing intrest in Rush Dueling. It also has a secret compartment to hold candy bars.
** Also in ''SEVENS'', Luke's sister Tiadosia "Tiger" Kallister - martial arts sensei, musician, and [[The Dreaded| a lady you do ''not'' want to cross]] - carries an overly-large bassoon made of [[Unobtainium|Gohanium]], an odd design that makes the instrument heavy and unwieldy, ensuring only someone with her unique talents can play it, and anyone who dares pick a fight with her ''will'' be clobbered with it before he realizes doing so was a mistake.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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* ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'' spinoff ''The Program'' had John Ferrara use, of all things, a banjo to beat Matthew Gourley to a pulp. On the main site we have Isabel Guerra making a shiv out of a trumpet and broken piece of glass. [[I Call It Vera|It's called Partario]].
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20161012184907/http://student.francis.edu/~adfst5/209/Main3.html The Ongoing Saga of Fritz the Unfortunate]'' follows a troupe of musicians who all wield these.
* From ''[[SCP Foundation]]'', [https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6624 SCP-6624] - Il Maestro del Rancore. (Be warned, this link is to an entry that has some NSFW material.) This apparatus, as it is described, was discovered beneath the Castle of Gesualdo at Gesualdo, Italy during a 1953 kidnapping and mass murder investigation. Dating back to the 7th century, it was built by a composer named Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa who went insane after murdering his wife, and later made a deal with an entity that has some connection to the extra-dimensional city of Alagadda, probably [[Bigger Bad|the Hanged King]]. Ostentatiously resembling some sort of organ, it contains [[Human Resources|124 preserved human bodies]]; it also has a system of bronze pipes and giant bellows fashioned from a whale’s stomach and lungs. It has 12 keyboards, plus a number levels, pulleys, and pedals, arranged in a haphazard fashion. This makes it impossible for a human to play the device, lacking the anatomical structure needed to do so. (The inventor had turned himself into some sort of multi-armed demon that enabled him to do so, while the researcher assigned to study it had to build some sort of mechanical device to experiment with it.) The various mechanisms force air through the lungs of the 124 bodies, manipulating the jaws and tongues to create “vocal music”, horrible melodies composed of screams, groans, sobs, and other unpleasant sounds. These preserved humans are not truly dead, and are at least partially conscious. Playing the device also causes steam to rise from vents all over the town and the sound of gears turning, so one can assume it’s only a small part of a larger device. When played, the music causes corruption over everything in the surrounding area, warping people, animals, plant life, and even structures into infernal versions of themselves, creating a [[Hell on Earth]] in a localized area. The second time it was played - in the modern era, after the aforementioned researcher was tempted and corrupted by the device - it is suggested that the true purpose of this device is to conduct an unholy ritual that would free the Hanged King from his prison and bring him to the mortal world.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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* ''[[Adventure Time]]'': Marceline the Vampire Queen has a guitar [[Visual Pun|shaped like an axe]]. It tends to get used like a guitar, though, which is not to say it hasn't been involved in asskicking.
** If her father is to be believed, the instrument started life as an axe and was turned into a guitar later.
* Gene Simmons did ''not'' use his bass guitar this way when [[KISS]] appeared on ''[[Celebrity Deathmatch]]'', but Ace Frehley did.
== [[Real Life]] ==
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