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Conn-Selmer manufactures tenor brass under the historic C.G. Conn and King Musical Instruments names at multiple facilities in the United States; E.K. Blessing, a subsidiary of Powell flutes, manufactures marching baritones in the United States; Eastman Music Company, Makes String, Brass, Woodwind and a variety of other instruments
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 CC tuba is used as an orchestral and concert band instrument in the U.S., but BB ♭ tubas are the contrabass tuba of choice in German, Austrian, and Russian orchestras. In the United States, the BB ♭ tuba is the most common in schools (largely due to the use of BB ♭ sousaphones in high school marching bands) and for adult amateurs.
After four changes of ownership for King Musical Instruments since 1980, the rights to the King name are currently owned by Conn-Selmer, Inc., a subsidiary of Steinway Musical Instruments, who use it as a brand for brass instruments including trumpets, trombones, tubas, and marching brasses.
The alto bugle is a voice that was created during the two piston era in the 1970s. These instruments were loosely based on the alto horns used in marching bands and brass bands in a bell-front marching configuration. Alto bugles are still manufactured today in a three valve configuration.
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 tuba player keeps rhythm, dancing and playing his tuba, but suddenly stops, and delivers four quick overhand right punches − three to the heckling fan's left cheek and one to his chest − ...
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 ...