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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 drum and bugle corps activity has been a driving force of innovation behind the creation of marching brass instruments for many decades. The mellophone and the contrabass bugle are among the creations spawned by instrument manufacturers for use in the marching activity due to the influence of drum and bugle corps hornlines.
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The Ravens are 5-5 at home in the playoffs and 11-8 on the road. In coach John Harbaugh's 17 seasons at the helm, they've won eight road postseason games — no other team has more than six in ...
Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas stood with more than 20 lawmakers to announce a slate of new and forthcoming bills aimed at wildfire recovery.
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John T. Finley took over the director position in 1951 [6] and immediately made changes to the band's musical and visual style. Finley removed the sousaphones, cornets and small-bore trombones, and replaced them with trumpets and bass trombones: instruments more usually associated with orchestras.
A second musical road was built in Hungary in 2022, this time on Road 37 in Szerencs. The project was completed in April 2023. This musical road is 513 meters long and plays a well-known Hungarian children's folk song called "The Grapes are Ripening." [18] The third one is located in Highway 21 and plays a song called Nélküled by Ismerős ...