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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 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 contrabass bugle, or "contra", is the bugle equivalent of a marching tuba and its variants (the sousaphone and helicon). This bugle was designed in the 1960s. The original design for a contrabass called for an instrument in CC (the equivalent tubing length of a CC tuba), carried in front of the marcher like the higher voices.
The next smaller tubas are the bass tubas, pitched in F or E ♭ (a fourth above the contrabass tubas). The E ♭ tuba often plays an octave above the contrabass tubas in brass bands, and the F tuba is commonly used by professional players as a solo instrument and, in America, to play higher parts in the classical repertoire (or parts that were ...
Actually, a sousaphone is a type of tuba. A sousaphone is easier to carry and is used for marching. Don't get too obsessed with the difference. Jimmy Kimmel will make fun of you. And don't drop a ...
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 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.
Contrabass Trombone C4 Plays the same notes as a tuba Trumpet: C Piccolo Trumpet: C 5: Piccolo trumpet: B ♭ 4: Piccolo Trumpet in A A 4: F trumpet F 4: E trumpet E 4: E ♭ trumpet E ♭ 4: D trumpet D 4: Trumpet B ♭ 3: A trumpet A 3: E ♭ bass trumpet: E ♭ 3: D bass trumpet: D 3: Bass trumpet B ♭ 2: Tuba: E ♭ tuba: E ♭ 2: When ...