The present “Method for Bass and Contrabass Tuba” provides daily exercises for the pupil which are conceived for a progressive and gradual advancement in the academic course of study of the tuba at ...

Low B flat, the lowest tone in music that is not just a grunt, is sounded in orchestras by the contrabassoon or the contrabass tuba. Beethoven used the big woodwind in his Ninth Symphony. Haydn in his ...

Gary Ofenloch didn’t get through 36 years of playing the tuba for the Utah Symphony without learning a few tricks. For example, he keeps his main instrument, a contrabass tuba, at his home studio in ...

The tuba is a funny instrument. Its sound is like a gaseous rumbling from deep within the earth—or our bellies. Hardly fleet of foot—it’s heavy, often pushing 30 pounds, and awkward—it’s seldom given ...

The indifferent ones dump loose change, even trash, in his metal bucket and go on without pause or glance. The kind ones peel off a crisp bill or stand back in admiring silence and watch him play.