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The tuba is the largest member of the brass instrument family. It also has the lowest pitch and is a principal instrument in military bands.

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What is a tuba like instrument?

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Baritone horn, Sousaphone, Euphonium, Contrabass bugle, and Alto Horn

Does the tuba have a smaller version?

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Yes, the euphonium, baritone and tenor horns are all smaller (and higher pitched) versions of the tuba. Also, trumpets (and cornets and flugel horns) are small tubas turned on their sides.

What is the fingering for the f scale on tuba?

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Ab (1)- Bb (open-0)- C (4)( or 1 and 3)- Db (2 and 3)- Eb (1)- F (0)- G (1 and 2)- Ab (1)

then go back wards back down

Arpeggio- Ab(1) C(4 or 1 and 3) Eb(1) Ab(1) Eb(1) C(4) Ab(1)

What is similar between a trumpet and a tuba?

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A trombone uses a slide. A trumpet uses valves. Also, the trombone is pitched lower than the trumpet, and has a different tone quality. If you think of brass instruments as voices, the trumpet is the soprano, and the trombone is the tenor.

What are the notes to c flat minor scale?

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1. Start on any note on the piano. This note is what will serve as the 'tonic' or the 'starting note'.

2. At this point, the minor scale can be defined on where you place whole steps and half steps. w=whole h=half

Now starting with the 'tonic' go up in this way: up a whole, up a whole, up a half, up a whole, up a whole, up a half, up a whole, up a whole. so the formula for any minor scale is...

wwhwwhww

You can start on any note you'd like. To perform the minor scale, just follow the formula above!

What are the happy birthday notes for tuba?

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Happy Birthday notes for Bb Trumpet - 3/4 time

All the C's are Low C's except for the one C indicated High C

C - C - D - C - F - E / C - C - D - C - G - F / C - C - High C - A - F - F - E - D / Bb - Bb - A - F - G - F

Is a tuba a brass?

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Tuba was used a lot for playing bass in early jazz.

How much do tuba players make?

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Well the tuba ranges from about 2000 dollars up into 15000 dollars

If your a beginner tubist then i suggest a 2 to 3 thousand dollar tuba probably a bb flat one

my personal tuba is a 15000 dollar hand made Bach tuba.

beginner tubas are quite nice if you take care of them and your good with your omnicher.

Do not though purchase one online

You can get them for a few hundred in pawn shops.

How do you repair a broken tuba?

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That depends on what's broken. If it's really broken, and you have no idea how to fix it, I'd STRONGLY recommend taking it to a reputable instrument repair shop. They have the tools and expertise to fix it. Anything you try to do to fix it might just make it worse.

Why does the sousaphone belong to the brass family?

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Because it's made of brass...... Hence it's a member of the BRASS family.

What is the most common key for tubas?

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There are two considerations: the horn and the music.

The fundamental pitch of the modern tenor trombone is B-flat. That is, it is the lowest note one can play with the slide in first position. All the notes in this position are part of the B-flat partial series, like you would hear in a bugle call. So, the trombone itself is pitched in the key of B-flat.*

What confuses many is that the trombone plays music in "concert pitch" (the key of C) just like a flute or a piano. Concert pitch means that the written note is identical to the sounding note. For example, a "C" on the trombone is written "C" on the music staff. Compare this to a "transposing instrument" such as the "B-flat trumpet" -- to get the trumpet player to play a concert "C" you would write a B-flat on the music staff. The same is true of the "B-flat clarinet" or "Bb tenor saxophone". When they play a written C, it sounds a B-flat. Likewise, when an Eb alto sax player plays a written C, it sounds an E-flat.

*There are trombones pitched in keys other than Bb. The Alto trombone is pitched a fouth higher, in Eb. Bass trombones used to be pitched primarily in F, but other variations exist as well.

Where did the tuba come from?

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Originally brass instruments had no valves. As the industrial age came about, improved machining techniques allowed instrument makers to fit brass instruments with valves and develop new brass instruments. Whole new, families of instruments with members of different ranges were developed. The tuba is in the same family as the trumpet. Other types of brass instruments developed during this time which did not "catch on," such as the Saxhorns and Wagner Tubas which of course had individual members of different ranges - soprano, alto, tenor, bass. Simply put; the tuba was developed to fill out the bottom of the brass section and it was the one that "caught on".

What styles of music is the tuba used for?

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The tuba is essential to wind bands (concert band, symphonic band, wind ensemble, brass band).

It is also used in various kinds of folk music groups, such as dixieland bands, polka bands, and the Mexican banda. This influence has led to the occasional use of the tuba in popular music, partly because its distinctive sound immediately calls these folk styles to mind. For example, tuba can be heard sometimes in Mexican and Tex-Mex pop music, where it seems to give the music a more old-fashioned, down-home sound. In country music, Dwight Yoakam (who often does odd, interesting things) recorded the title track of Population: Me with a tuba as the bass, in the style of a New Orleans dixieland funeral march.


The tuba was also used regularly in early jazz and pop recordings, since its sound was easier to pick up on the primitive recording equipment of the day, compared to the sound of the string bass. This led to the name "recording bass" for a tuba with a forward-facing bell; the sousaphone was often used in recording for the same reason.


For the reason just mentioned, as well as its roots in dixieland, jazz has used the tuba off and on over the years. Some jazz charts include a tuba part that serves as a 5th trombone part, others have a bass part that indicates tuba as an option instead of string bass.


Many tuba players play acoustic and/or electric bass, and I've known several (myself included) who play bass in jazz groups. As a rule of thumb, if the bass part is written in the older "two-beat" style (two notes per measure, in the "oompah" style of a march), I might use tuba just for fun instead of string bass. The song "All that jazz", for example, was written in the 1970s, but it's in a campy retro style that just begs for tuba in my opinion.

What are the hardest band instruments to play?

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In concert band, the bassoon. The double reed makes it especially difficult, then you add in the bass clef, and its natural out-of-tune nature, and you have a very difficult instrument to play.

In marching band, probably the drum line because of the size of the instruments and the pressure set on you to keep the entire band in tempo.

Who is the word famous tuba player?

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Famous tuba players include:

  • Tommy Johnson who played the tuba until his death, playing notable theme songs for films--the most famous being JAWS
  • Roger Bobo played with the L.A. Philharmonic for many years and recorded as a soloist with the London Philharmonic. He also appeared on the Tonight Show
  • Harvey Phillips, the only wind instrument player to be inducted into the Classical Music Hall of Fame
  • William Bell

Famous jazz tuba players include:

  • Walter Page
  • Red Callendar
  • Don Butterfield
  • Joe Murphy
  • Howard Johnson
  • Bob Stewart
  • Marcus Rojas
  • Eli Newberger
  • Matt Perrine
  • Kirk Joseph
  • Nat Mcintosh
  • Jon Sass
  • Jim Self
  • Michel Godard
  • Anthony Lacen (a.k.a. "Tuba Fats")

Tuba jazz pioneers include:

  • Walter Page
  • Chink Martin
  • Hayes Alvis
  • Pete Briggs
  • Pop Estep
  • Singleton Palmer
  • Joe Tarto
  • Bill Barber
  • Don Butterfield
  • Cyrus St. Clair
  • Clinton Walker
  • Gene Mayl
  • Quinn Wilson

How is the tuba played?

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The Tuba is played by sitting on something in front of you with your mouth on the mouthpiece while your right hand presses the valves and your left hand holds it still.

And you have to have allot of breath to play the tuba!
as well as blowing with a spiting the pressing the valves to for the note's

What is the largest instrument in the tuba family?

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yes, along with trumpets, trombones, horns, etc.

What country is the tuba from?

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I believe they originate from Europe before the World War era. And they only exist in the US today because they were brought to the US as a result of the world war. The US before this time only had baritones, so when they got these Euphoniums they were exposed the European instrumentation. From that point they adopted the euphonium, but it was too late to be added into orchestras for that line had already been set.

What song contains the lyrics ha ha ha ha hey yo tuba tuba?

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The song is 'Don't Ha Ha' by Casey Jones & The Governors!!

The REAL original version of the song (as heard in the film La Bamba) is "Don't you just know it" by Huey "Piano" Smith

Is the tuba made of metal or wood?

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Tubas are made of metal, frequently brass, hence the name "brasswind" (trumpets, trombones, tubas, etc). This is as opposed to "woodwind" (like flutes and clarinets)

Is the tuba hard to blow?

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A Trumpet has 3 keys that are used to play it. there are many combinations which the keys are pressed and each combination results in a different note. Learning the different combinations is the hardest part of learning any instrument. Once you memorize the notes and which keys are pushed to make them, it becomes easier to learn to play. If you have the ambition to learn, the confidence that you can, and the patience to take the time to learn, You will enjoy playing any instrument that you try to play! have fun with it.

What is the difference between trombone and tuba?

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well... a trombone uses a slide to make different notes and a tuba has valves to press down to make notes. a trombone sits on your shoulder while you play it. a tuba sits on your leg or on a chair. a trombone weighs a lot less than a tuba

trust me i play both of these instruments in band class=]

What does the tuba sound like?

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The tuba is a bass instrument.

The trombone is a tenor instrument.

How long is an uncoiled tuba?

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standard BBb lengths (approximations)

Open 18 ft

1st valve 19.07 ft (1.07 ft added)

2nd valve 20.21 ft (2.21 ft added)

3rd Valve 21.41 ft (3.41 ft added)

Total length of all tubing (all valves down or the tuba is unraveled) approximately 26.49 ft

What are some famous pieces written for the tuba?

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In any band or orchestra the Tuba will almost never have the main melody of a song, instead it's used to balance the other instruments. in some cases it is used to keep time. becasue of its extremely low pitch, it makes it harder to learn or play any modern type song.