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The ViolinCross

The least common weapon wielded by a Warrior Bard was the violin, and as such this was the only one of its kind. It consisted of a large, re-inforced violin, which had singularily tense strings. By drawing a sharp metal violin bow across the strings, it could be fired at high velocities in much the same way as done with an actual bow. The bonus being, of course, that doing this would produce an eardrum-shattering shriek from the supertense strings.

The Violincross was wielded by that one Warrior Bard with the violin, whose rendition of "The Nutcracker" cracked glass (and nuts), and who once actually committed mass murder with "The Flight of the Bumblebee".

Had the violin been more popular at the time, this could have been a fearsome weapon, apart from the noticable weakness of, after you shot the bow, you were left with merely a large piece of wood with strings and a sinking feeling that violins should come with more of those little wooden things...

Perhaps more practice would have resulted in the carrying of Bow quivers, but alas, it was not to be.