Everybody knows what a tuba is. As usual, everyone is wrong. There is no clear definition of the instrument, and there are more than a dozen that have been given the name. Wagner invented two of ...

It was actually the original brass instruments were created before the valve was invented. So they, And then the tuba was invented after the valve. It's a sweet little baby. Yes. And tell me what ...

First, it's a relatively young instrument: The brass tuba was invented in the 1830s. And second, some folks think the only use of the tuba is to be loud. Phillips, Quade says, was personally ...

The collection fills five rooms. He says the tuba we know and love was invented in Germany in 1835. "I have one almost exactly identical to that first tuba from 1845," he says. To hear the sounds ...

Bill Barber, 87, a musician who helped refashion the jazz tuba from its predictable oompah passages to suit the complex melodies and rhythms of Miles Davis and other postwar jazz modernists ...

The tuba is structurally weak because it is made out of a brass that is very thin, usually only a few millimeters, because of the immense size of its tubes and bell. The size of his invention ...