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tuba
[ too-buh, tyoo- ]
noun
plural tubas tubae
- 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.
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Origin of tuba1
Latin
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I kept telling them, “The tuba is the hook.”
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My earliest memories of the tuba were growing up hearing Texas Southern University’s marching band.
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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.
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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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A tuba is also much harder for a thief to pilfer than, say, a piccolo, or even a trumpet.
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