September 2010
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The tuba is the largest and lowest-pitched member of the brass family. Over the years, its size and design have varied greatly. It is a valved, metal tube instrument using a wide conical bore, with the tubing usually coiled into an elliptical shape and terminating into a very wide bell. In contrast to its cousins, the trumpet and trombone, the tuba is usually played in the vertical position with the bell facing upward or forward.
The original patent for the tuba was granted to Wilhelm Friedrich Wieprecht and Carl Moritz in Prussia in 1835. Following the shape of the ophicleide, ...
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