I knew of the double-bell euphoniums and echo cornets, but apparently there are quite a few double-bell trumpets around. Here are videos of Bobby Shew playing his "shewhorn" (and using it very musically, too - two bells indeed sound like two horn players trading phrases) and Herb Alpert with his two-bell instrument.
In addition to obvious designs like shewhorn's bell-on-the-side and Marco Blaauw's trumpet with an extra Dizzy-style upturned bell, there is also Courtois "bell-over-bell" system (not sure how it works, though).
Ben Neill has a three-bell "mutantrumpet" stuffed with electronics.
Check out these sax-shaped two-bell things.
And finally...
...beat this, guitar boys!
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