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The main tube of a B ♭ tuba is approximately 18 feet (5.5 m) long, while that of a C tuba is 16 feet (4.9 m), of an E ♭ tuba 13 feet (4.0 m), and of an F tuba 12 feet (3.7 m). The instrument has a conical bore , meaning the bore diameter increases as a function of the tubing length from the mouthpiece to the bell.
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 ...
The contrabass bugle (usually shortened to contra or simply called the marching tuba) is the lowest-pitched brass instrument in the drum and bugle corps and marching band hornline. [1] It is the drum corps' counterpart to the marching band's sousaphone : the lowest-pitched member of the hornline, and a replacement for the concert tuba on the ...
The Wagner tuba is built with rotary valves, which (like those on the horn) are played with the left hand. [4] Horn players traditionally double on Wagner tubas because the mouthpiece and fingering are identical, [3] though the size of the bore of the Wagner tuba is midway between that of a euphonium and a horn.
Wild cost overruns plagued the project, with the result that Harris was ousted from his own company. With capital from stockholder Eben Smith, it was reorganized as the Los Angeles Art Organ Company, and finished at a cost of $105,000 (equal to $3,560,667 today), $40,000 over budget, equal to $1,356,444 today. The Fair began (in late April 1904 ...
Compositions for tuba (1 C, 2 P) T. Tubists (4 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Tubas" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
2–4 Wagner tubas – 2 tenors, 2 bass 3–6 trumpets in F, and other keys including C, B ♭ of which some might play 1 bass trumpet 3–4 cornets 3–4 tenor trombones (alto trombone parts from the classical era usually played on tenor trombone) 1–2 bass trombones of which 1 might play 1 contrabass trombone 1–2 tubas
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 ...