On the first TubaChristmas, around 300 musicians showed up at the ice skating rink at Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, bearing their giant brass instruments. A massive, all-tuba holiday concert was ...

A special concert is celebrating the holiday season and the tuba. NewsHour's Tim McPhillips reports on the role of this versatile booming brass instrument in the music we all love. It wasn't the famed ...

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 ...

As the largest and lowest-pitched musical instrument in the brass family, the tuba doesn’t exactly conjure up a cool image for most people. However, the members of Tubassadors, a Tokyo-based quartet ...

Add the tuba to the list of book subjects you probably thought you didn’t care about but that is suddenly compelling as heck. We’ve had entire books about salt, the digestive system and the color ...