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Tuba
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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Yes - on the plus side you don't need to learn new valvle combinations or how to make a sound on the instrument. However, you will find that there is a difference in your embechoure (to do with the mouthpiece on tuba being considerably bigger), you will have to blow harder to get the air moving in the tuba. Also, you may find that the tuba has a 4th valve, which is on the side adn played with the left hand (this is the same as playing 1 and 3, so for a low D you can just use 4th valve, and for a C# use 4th and 2nd). You will also have to learn bass clef. However, these are all things that are quick to learn, and with a grounding in trumpet you will probably find that you will be proficient on tuba in a much shorter length of time than it took to learn trumpet in the first place. Good luck and have fun!
Where can you purchase tubas from?
Tubas can be obtained from music chops that specialise in wind or brass instruments. Amazon do list a few on occasions. Prices of second hand tubas vary considerably to new ones. A good alternate is a refurbished ones available from MusiciansBuy.
What are the notes played when Stewie Griffin follows fat people around with a tuba?
Bb (glisando to) Eb, G, Bb, C, D, Eb, G, Bb
when he plays just play random notes when the guy falls down
How is Clarisse different than Mildred?
Clarisse has freedom of thought. She's happy, because she enjoys conversation, and she hasn't been entirely corrupted by society like Mildred has.
The Roman tuba is very different from the modern tuba What is the main difference between the two?
The modern tuba is bent and the Roman tuba is a straight brass tube.
What country or culture did the tuba originate from?
Like most instruments, the tuba evolved over a period of time, so it depends on exactly where you want to freeze-frame the process. To me, a tuba isn't a tuba unless it is a good-sized bass instrument made of brass, with a cup mouthpiece and valves, a large bore that expands throughout the length of the tube, and pitched to play well below the trombones and other brass.
The first documented instrument like this is the Bass-Tuba built by Johann Gottfried Moritz in 1835, to the specifications of Wilhelm Wieprecht. It was pitched in F, with five short-action piston valves, making it quite comparable to modern instruments except for its relatively small bore and small bell.
Moritz was an instrument maker in Berlin, and Wieprecht was a bandleader in the Prussian army (later director of all their military music), so this instrument's origin was solidly German and rooted in the military band tradition. Wieprecht wanted a bass instrument that could match the power of the other brass instruments, especially in an outdoor setting.
The French made a contribution here as well, however, through the bass member of the "saxhorn" family, another group of instruments developed by Adolph Sax in the 1840s.
Source: "Tuba," New Grove Dictionary (1980).
A tuba is a very low brass instrument. They make a very beautiful tone when played correctly, but can sound horrible when played wrong
The tuba largely replaced the ophicleide. Tuba is Latin for 'trumpet'. A person who plays the tuba is known as a tubaist or tubist. The instrument normally plays the role of the bass in bands and orchestras. It is commonly used for the lowest notes in the treble cleft and has a bottom range normally of low "G" below "C" in the scale.
