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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 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 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 tubax is a modified contrabass saxophone developed in 1999 by the German instrument maker Benedikt Eppelsheim.Although it has the same fingering as the saxophone, Eppelsheim's design reduces the amount of expansion of its conical bore in relation to the length of tubing, resulting in a smaller volume of resonant air column.
This page lists classical pieces in the tuba repertoire, including solo works, concertenti and chamber music of which tuba plays a significant part. Solo tuba [ edit ]
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 helicon is a brass musical instrument in the tuba family. Most are B ♭ basses, but they also commonly exist in E ♭ , F, and tenor sizes, as well as other types to a lesser extent. The sousaphone is a specialized version of the helicon.