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TubaChristmas 2007, ice rink at Rockefeller Center, New York City TubaChristmas 2016 in Commerce, Texas. TubaChristmas is a music concert held in cities worldwide that celebrates those who play, teach, and compose music for instruments in the tuba family, including the tuba, sousaphone, baritone, and euphonium, though some participants bring rarer members of the family such as the helicon ...
T.U.B.A. became an international movement following The First International Tuba Symposium-Workshop and the beginning of its newsletter, the T.U.B.A. Journal in 1973. A primary goal of the first symposium was to reach-out to composers and facilitate new works for the tuba. Harvey Phillips later estimated some 150 new works derived from that effort.
This table is correct for the core three-valve layout on almost any modern valved brass instrument. The most common four-valve layout is a superset of the well-established three-valve layout and is noted in the table, despite the exposition of four-valve and also five-valve systems (the latter used on the tuba) being incomplete in this article.
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.
The Matteson-Phillips Tubajazz Consort (Tubajazz Records, 1976); Perantoni Plays Perantoni (Mark Records, 1979); Tubajazz Superhorns Live! (Tubajazz Records, 1991, released on CD by HPF Records 1992)
First Lady Melania Trump greets former First Lady Michelle Obama during the 2017 Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20, 2017.
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Howard Lewis Johnson (August 7, 1941 – January 11, 2021) was an American jazz musician, known mainly for his work on tuba and baritone saxophone, although he also played the bass clarinet, trumpet, and other reed instruments. [1] [2] He is known to have expanded the tuba’s known capacities in jazz. [3]