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The tuba is the largest an lowest pitched brass instrument. Sound is produced by vibrating or "buzzing" the lips into a large cupped mouthpiece. It is one of the most recent additions to the modern symphony orchestra, first appearing in the mid-19th century, when it largely replaced the ophicleide. Tuba is Latin for trumpet or horn. The horn referred to would most likely resemble what we know as a Baroque trumpet.

Trivia about tuba

  • Sousa was instrumental in the design of the sousaphone, a bass one of these with an upright bell
  • The name of this large brass instrument is Latin for "trumpet"
  • Used in military bands, the large-bored euphonium is a type of this brass instrument
  • In music, you may be the lucky one that gets to carry around this instrument
  • Sousa was instrumental in the design of the Sousaphone, a bass one of these with an upright bell
  • The sousaphone, developed from a suggestion by Sousa, is a 3-valved type of this brass instrument
  • The lowest-pitched of the brass instruments, its name is from the Latin for trumpet
  • This instrument's name is from the Latin for "large war trumpet"
  • The instruments in a brass band range in pitch from the cornet to the bombardon, a bass one of these
  • Patented in 1835, this instrument was designed to provide a suitable valved brass bass for a wind band
  • I play this lowest-pitched brass instrument & I've gotten really good at dodging stuff people try to throw in it
  • Heard here, it's the lowest instrument of an orchestra's brass section
  • "The Little Show" of 1931 featured Herman Hupfeld's "When Yuba Plays the Rumba on" this instrument
  • When it has circular coiling, call it a helicon

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