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tuba
[ too-buh, tyoo- ]
noun
- Music.
- a valved, brass wind instrument having a low range.
- an organ reed stop of large scale with tones of exceptional power.
- an ancient Roman trumpet.
- Meteorology. funnel cloud.
tuba
/ ˈːə /
noun
- a valved brass instrument of bass pitch, in which the bell points upwards and the mouthpiece projects at right angles. The tube is of conical bore and the mouthpiece cup-shaped
- any other bass brass instrument such as the euphonium, helicon, etc
- a powerful reed stop on an organ
- a form of trumpet of ancient Rome
tuba
- The lowest-pitched of the brass instruments. In orchestras , the tuba is usually held across the player's lap. In marching bands, the sousaphone is generally used as a low brass instrument because it was designed to be carried.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of tuba1
Example Sentences
“For a family to pay $25 a month to rent a violin or take responsibility for a $2,000 tuba, it’s not going to happen for most students, right?” he said.
I kept telling them, “The tuba is the hook.”
My earliest memories of the tuba were growing up hearing Texas Southern University’s marching band.
Born Brian Keith Flowers, he got his first taste for music in the Royal Air Force in the 1950s, where he served for nine years as a bandsman playing the tuba.
Ada Brooks, her mouth dry from nerves, lifted the bell of her euphonium, a smaller relative of the tuba, and prepared to play the notes that could determine her future.
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