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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 contrabass bugle, or "contra", is the bugle equivalent of a marching tuba and its variants (the sousaphone and helicon). This bugle was designed in the 1960s. The original design for a contrabass called for an instrument in CC (the equivalent tubing length of a CC tuba), carried in front of the marcher like the higher voices.
Contrabass (from Italian: contrabbasso) refers to several musical instruments of very low pitch—generally one octave below bass register instruments. While the term most commonly refers to the double bass (which is the bass instrument in the orchestral string family, tuned lower than the cello), many other instruments in the contrabass register exist.
Drum and bugle corps players, however, generally use marching tubas or Contrabass bugles. Standard tubas can also be played whilst standing and marching, which is the usual practice in British brass bands and military bands. With the comfort of the player in mind, companies have provided harnesses that sometimes use a strap joined to the tuba ...
Contra-alto clarinet: E ♭ 2: Contrabass clarinet: B ♭ 1: Octocontra-alto clarinet E ♭ 1: B ♭ octocontrabass clarinet B ♭ 0: Cornet Soprano cornet: E ♭ 4: Cornet: B ♭ 3: Crotales: C 6: Csakan: A ♭ 4: Euphonium: B ♭ 2: When notated in treble clef fife Folk B ♭ fife: A ♭ 4: Flute: D ♭ piccolo: D ♭ 5: Piccolo: C 5: Treble ...
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The bugle is a simple signaling brass instrument with a wide conical bore. It normally has no valves or other pitch-altering devices, and is thus limited to its natural harmonic notes, and pitch is controlled entirely by varying the air and embouchure .
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