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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.
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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.
Principal tuba with Royal Liverpool Philharmonic (1964–1972). English tubist, musicologist and early music specialist playing ophicleide, cimbasso and serpent. Wrote The Tuba Family, a standard text on the history of low brass instruments. Ronald Bishop: 1934–2013 American Classical Principal tubist of the Cleveland Orchestra (1967–2005).
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 orchestra is divided into four groups (five if a keyboard instrument is used) and specified as follows: [1] Woodwind instruments: flutes, oboes, clarinets, saxophones (if one or more are needed), bassoons; Brass instruments: horns, trumpets, trombones, tubas; Percussion: timpani, snare drum, bass drum, chimes, etc.
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 ...
King Musical Instruments (originally founded as the H. N. White Company) is a former musical instrument manufacturing company located in Cleveland, Ohio, that used the trade name King for its instruments. In 1965 the company was acquired by the Seeburg Corporation of Eastlake, Ohio, and the name changed to "King Musical Instruments".