tuba
Sign in to saveThe tuba (Latin, "trumpet"; ; ) is a large brass instrument in the bass-to-contrabass range with a wide conical bore. It usually has four or five valves, although some models have three and some have six. It first appeared in 1835 in Prussia as the , by adding five valves to a large 12-foot bugle pitched in F. This design provided a fully chromatic contrabass instrument with a deep, full timbre. By the 1850s, Paris instrument designer Adolphe Sax had developed the E and B band tubas with piston valves as part of his saxhorn family, and in the 1870s Václav František Červený in Austria-Hungary d
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The tuba is a large brass instrument with a wide conical bore that produces deep, full-sounding notes in the bass-to-contrabass range, typically equipped with four or five valves to play different pitches. It was invented in 1835 in Prussia as a fully chromatic contrabass instrument and became widely adopted in orchestras and bands throughout the 19th century.
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Key facts
- Instrument.name
- Tuba
- Instrument.image
- Yamaha Bass tuba YFB-822.tif
- Instrument.caption
- A bass tuba in F with front-action piston valves
- Instrument.background
- brass
- Instrument.hornbostel_sachs
- 423.232
- Instrument.hornbostel_sachs_desc
- Valved lip-reed aerophone with wide conical bore
- Instrument.inventors
- Wilhelm Friedrich Wieprecht and Johann Gottfried Moritz
- Instrument.developed
- 1835 in Prussia
- Instrument.range
- { \new Staff \with { \omit Score.TimeSignature } \clef bass \key c \major \cadenzaOn \omit Stem s4 ^ \markup "F tuba" \arpeggioBracket 1 \arpeggio \once \hide r1 s4 ^ \markup "C tuba" \arpeggioBracket 1 \arpeggio } The tuba has a three octave tessitura above its first pedal tone (see § Range)
- Instrument.musicians
- List of tubists
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30 sectionsContents
- History
- Origins
- The first tubas
- Early American tubas
- The tuba in Italy
- Twentieth-century developments
- The Chicago Yorks
- The tuba in jazz
- Construction
- Sizes
- Quarter designation
- Other sizes
- Variations
- Tubas for marching
- Valves
- Fourth, fifth, and sixth valves
- Compensating valves
- Materials and finish
- Manufacturers
- Performance
- Notation
- Range
- Resonance and false tones
- Microtonality
- Players
- Repertoire
- Notes
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
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{ \new Staff \with { \omit Score.TimeSignature } \clef bass \key c \major \cadenzaOn \omit Stem s4 ^ \markup "F tuba" \arpeggioBracket 1 \arpeggio \once \hide r1 s4 ^ \markup "C tuba" \arpeggioBracket 1 \arpeggio } The tuba has a three octave tessitura above its first pedal tone (see § Range) | related = | articles = | musicians = List of tubists | sound sample =