The tuba (UK: /ˈtjuːbə/; US: /ˈtuːbə/) is the largest and lowest-pitched musical instrument in the brass family. As with all brass instruments, the sound...
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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...
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The subcontrabass tuba is a rare instrument of the tuba family built an octave or more below the modern contrabass tuba. Only a very small number of these...
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and are also common on the tuba. Slide brass instruments use a slide to change the length of tubing. The main instruments in this category are the trombone...
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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...
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Sousaphone (category Tubas)
The sousaphone (/ˈsuːzəfoʊn/ SOO-zə-fohn) is a brass musical instrument in the tuba family. Created around 1893 by J. W. Pepper at the direction of American...
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shape, and unlike most brass instruments is made from wood with an outer covering of leather. A distant ancestor of the tuba, the serpent is related to...
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Euphonium (redirect from Tenor tuba)
name for the instrument was the euphonion. It is sometimes called the tenor tuba in B♭, although this can also refer to other varieties of tuba. Names in...
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The Roman tuba (plural: tubae), or trumpet was a military signal instrument used by the ancient Roman military and in religious rituals. They would signal...
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Tubachristmas (redirect from Tuba Christmas)
TubaChristmas is a music concert held in cities worldwide that celebrates those who play, teach, and compose music for instruments in the tuba family,...
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such as a tuba, serpent, and sousaphone from the wind family and low-tuned versions of specific types of brass and woodwind instruments, such as bassoon...
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Cimbasso (category Brass instruments)
The cimbasso is a low brass instrument that covers the same range as a tuba or contrabass trombone. First appearing in Italy in the early 19th century...
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Starring Jimmy Fallon. The sousaphone is a low brass instrument mainly used as a marching band tuba. Bryson was named "one of the top sousaphone players...
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brass bands, are members of the saxhorn family. The Wagner tuba is a rare brass instrument that is essentially a horn modified to have a larger bell throat...
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Tuba Skinny is a traditional jazz street band based in New Orleans, Louisiana. The band's instrumentation includes cornet, clarinet, trombone, tuba, tenor...
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Contrabass bugle (redirect from Marching tuba)
(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...
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musical instrument invented by the composer and parodist Peter Schickele This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Tuba mirum....
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In musical instrument classification, string instruments, or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer...
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Ophicleide (category Brass instruments)
largely superseded by early forms of the modern tuba, developed from valved ophicleides. The instrument's name comes from the Greek words ὄφις (ophis, lit...
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Tenor horn (redirect from Bear Tuba)
fills the gap above the lower tenor and bass instruments (the trombone, baritone horn, euphonium, and tuba). Its valves are typically, though not exclusively...
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up tuba in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A tuba is a musical instrument that plays notes in the bass clef. Tuba can also refer to: Roman tuba, a straight...
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a low brass instrument such as a tuba or trombone. Different musical genres tend to be associated with one or more of these instruments. Since the 1960s...
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notes with precision. New instruments such as the clarinet, saxophone, and tuba became fixtures in orchestras. Instruments such as the clarinet also grew...
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This is a list of musical instruments, including percussion, wind, stringed, and electronic instruments. AlphaSphere Audiocubes Bass pedals Continuum...
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Saxhorn (category Brass instruments)
E♭ bass tuba, and BB♭ contrabass tuba, respectively. Historically, much confusion exists as to the nomenclature of the various instruments in different...
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page lists classical pieces in the tuba repertoire, including solo works, concertenti and chamber music of which tuba plays a significant part. Georges...
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French horn (category Concert band instruments)
name and its somewhat tuba-shaped appearance, it is generally not considered part of the tuba family, because the instrument's relatively narrow bore...
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Trombone (redirect from Trombone (instrument))
The prominent solo part in the Tuba Mirum section of his Requiem became a staple audition piece for the instrument. Aside from solo parts, Mozart's...
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pedal tone (fundamental) of a brass instrument of equal length. Certain low brass instruments such as trombone, tuba, euphonium, and alto horn are whole-tube...
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