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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.
It is now owned by the Harvard University Band, who have restored it and feature it occasionally in their concerts. [3] Subcontrabass tuba in C by Rudolph Sander, 1899, in the Musikantenland Museum. In 1956, British musician Gerard Hoffnung used a 32′ C subcontrabass tuba built in 1899 in the first of his comedic Hoffnung Music Festivals. [3]
Nirschl is a sixth-generation builder of musical instruments. Nirschl builds brass instruments, including trumpets, trombones, French horns, mellophones, euphoniums, and tubas, under the 'Meister Walter Nirschl' brand in his factory in Bavaria and collaborates with Gemstone Musical Instruments on the W. Nirschl brass line. Nirschl's instruments ...
The Wagner tuba is a four-valve brass instrument commissioned by and named after Richard Wagner.It combines technical features of both standard tubas and French horns, [1] though despite its name, the Wagner tuba is more similar to the latter, and usually played by horn players.
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.
List of tuba players Image Name Lifetime Nationality Genre Notes Walter English: 1867–1916 American Circus: Played in various bands [2] William Bell: 1902–1971 American Classical The leading player and teacher of the early 20th century. Played in the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the Sousa Band, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, NBC ...
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 ...
Besson is a manufacturer of brass musical instruments.It is owned by Buffet Crampon, which bought Besson in 2006 from The Music Group.. The company was formed in 1837 by Gustave Auguste Besson, who at the age of 18 produced a revolutionary design of cornet which surpassed all contemporary models.