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The sousaphone (/ ˈ s uː z ə f oʊ n / SOO-zə-fohn) is a brass musical instrument in the tuba family. Created around 1893 by J. W. Pepper at the direction of American bandleader John Philip Sousa (after whom the instrument was then named), it was designed to be easier to play than the concert tuba while standing or marching, as well as to carry the sound of the instrument above the heads ...
The euphonium is sometimes referred to as a tenor tuba and is pitched in B ♭, one octave higher than the BB ♭ contrabass tuba. The term "tenor tuba" is often used more specifically to refer to B ♭ rotary-valved tubas pitched in the same octave as euphoniums. The "Small Swiss Tuba in C" is a tenor tuba pitched in C, and provided with 6 ...
Certain low brass instruments such as trombone, tuba, euphonium, and alto horn are whole-tube and can play the fundamental tone of each harmonic series with relative ease. Furthermore, the low brass often use extra valves to extend their range uniformly, since the fundamental is chromatically discontinuous with the lowest 2nd harmonic reachable ...
The first contrabass bugle was developed in the 1960s by Whaley Royce, a Canadian instrument manufacturer which produced bugles for many drum corps of that era. Matching all other competition bugles at the time, these early contrabass bugles were pitched in the key of GG, making them significantly larger than all tubas to that date, apart from the rare subcontrabass tuba.
The tuba player keeps rhythm, dancing and playing his tuba, but suddenly stops, and delivers four quick overhand right punches − three to the heckling fan's left cheek and one to his chest − ...
It's nearly that time again for TubaChristmas. The Akron holiday favorite will be back at E.J. Thomas Hall for the 44th annual edition of the Christmastime classic.
This tuba is playable but two players are needed: one to operate the valves, and one to blow into the mouthpiece. Frederick Young plays a King BB♭ tuba that was converted into a double tuba (in BB♭ and EEE♮) by Dietrich Kleine-Horst (of the Herbert Gronitz Brass Instrument Company in Hamburg, Germany) in 1990. [8] (The added EEE side is ...
Nothing like a little musical comedy to knock them off their high horses.