Tuba

The actual instrument itself is what vibrates.

For example when you hit a cymbal, you can sometimes see the brass vibrating, and also if you touch the cymbal while it is making a sound you can feel the vibrations on your hand.

There are many instruments that look the same as a tuba, but are a different size so produce notes at a different pitch. These include euphonium, baritone and tenor horn. Trumpets and cornets are like a very small tuba turned on its side.

Harry Smith (born August 21,1951) - TV and radio personality. Anchor of CBS' The Early Show, was also a contributor for CBS Evening News, sometimes anchors and is a correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning. He plays the tuba.

An English horn is a woodwind instrument, a member of the oboe family, about one third longer than an oboe and souding a perfect fifth lower. It makes its sound by the vibration of a double reed, again much like an oboe.

A tuba is a low brass instrument, also pitched in the key of F. It makes sound by the buzzing of the lips into a mouthpiece, much like a trumpet.

The two are quite dissimilar instruments.

You can use a tuner and tune each slide or by just listening around the ensemble to tune each note. The main thing is to make sure you are in tune with others. See the attached links for more information on how to tune a tuba.

No CNET in Bb Tuba is in BBb or also known as C

1. that is a stupid question because there are no "highest notes". Even pianos can be made with more keys.

2. A tuba player and other brass player have no specific range. With expirience comes higher and lower range through daily exersices like range builders. As a senior in high school I have a range of the lowest Bb on an normal piano and up to the F above middle C. So a professional should be able to hit your "highest notes"

One ancestor is an instrument called the serpent.

Well that all depends on what horn you're playing, what tone you're trying to achieve, how often you play, and a number of other factors as well. You could try talking to a music educator, or going to http://www.wwbw.com and emailing the customer service. They may have some useful tips.

I personally play the Perantucci PT-48 for solo work, and a Conn-Helleberg 120 Standard Model for band work. I'm also in the process of researching Neil Sanders mouthpieces for sousaphone work.

So, a good general playing mouthpiece would probably be a Conn-Helleberg 120 Standard (120S), or a generic 25B. For solo work, I'd have to recommend a Roger Bobo Solo model.

I hope that my answer was useful.

Trumpet players and Saxophone players will have different answers for you :P

It's easier to say who were amazing players on those instruments in jazz.

Trumpet - Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Clifford Brown, Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard, Wynton Marsalis

Saxophone - Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Cannonball Adderley, John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, Sonny Rollins

Brass. If you want to be exact, low brass.

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

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.

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)

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.

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...

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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".

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.

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.