Learning to play a musical instrument requires learning at least three distinct languages. One day in sixth grade I was informed by the band director that I would henceforth be playing a tuba. (Later ...

Travis Netzer can thank bad TV reception in the 1990s for his unique take on rock music. As a kid growing up on a farm outside of Ipswich, the Netzers didn’t have a satellite and picked up about ...

Let’s face it–the tuba isn’t exactly a sexy instrument. When one thinks tuba, among the images generated are: polka, old men (detail: old men wearing black knee-high socks and bad plaid shorts), and ...

A famed tubist provided the soundtrack to success in music and film industries. Jim Self, a tuba player with work featured in ...

The sound of two brass instruments. Too loud to be on a radio or a record player. Coming from the roof of an apartment ...