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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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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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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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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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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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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referred to several instruments; initially an upright serpent similar to the basson russe, then the ophicleide, early forms of valved tuba (pelittone, bombardone)...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Salpinx (redirect from Salpinx (instrument))
the era. Though similar to the Roman tuba, the salpinx was shorter than the approximately 1.5 meter long Roman tuba. A rare example of a salpinx, held at...
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Bowed string instruments are a subcategory of string instruments that are played by a bow rubbing the strings. The bow rubbing the string causes vibration...
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Woodwind instruments are a family of musical instruments within the greater category of wind instruments. Common examples include flute, clarinet, oboe...
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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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Range (music) (redirect from Instrument range)
In music, the range, or chromatic range, of a musical instrument is the distance from the lowest to the highest pitch it can play. For a singing voice...
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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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