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2. Tuba - Wikipedia

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   The CC tuba is used as an orchestral and concert band instrument in the U.S., but BB ♭ tubas are the contrabass tuba of choice in German, Austrian, and Russian orchestras. In the United States, the BB ♭ tuba is the most common in schools (largely due to the use of BB ♭ sousaphones in high school marching bands) and for adult amateurs.

3. Sousaphone - Wikipedia

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   The sousaphone (/ ˈ s uː z ə f oʊ n / SOO-zə-fohn) is a brass musical instrument in the tuba family. Created around 1893 by J. W. Pepper at the direction of American bandleader John Philip Sousa (after whom the instrument was then named), it was designed to be easier to play than the concert tuba while standing or marching, as well as to carry the sound of the instrument above the heads ...

4. Wagner tuba - Wikipedia

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   The Wagner tuba is a four- valve brass instrument commissioned by and named after Richard Wagner. It combines technical features of both standard tubas and French horns, [ 1] though despite its name, the Wagner tuba is more similar to the latter, and usually played by horn players. Wagner commissioned the instrument for his four-part opera ...

5. Brass instrument - Wikipedia

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   A tenor horn (alto horn) in E ♭, baritone horn in B ♭, and euphonium in B ♭. A brass instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by sympathetic vibration of air in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of the player's lips. Brass instruments are also called labrosones[ 1] or labrophones, from Latin and Greek ...

6. York Band Instrument Company - Wikipedia

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   The "York" Sound. The York Band Instrument Co manufactured a full line of woodwind, string, percussion, and brass instruments which included trumpets, cornets, horns, trombones, helicons, baritone horns, sousaphones, and tubas. The brass instruments made before 1940 were known to have superior craftsmanship, ease of enunciation, intonation, and ...

7. Banda music - Wikipedia

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   Banda music was established in the 1880s in the Mexican state of Sinaloa and expanded to other nearby states in the 1890s. Its roots come from the overlapping of Mexican music with polka music. At the time, many Mexicans lived in the states of Sinaloa, Chihuahua, Oaxaca, Yucatan, Jalisco and Nuevo León. This greatly influenced northern Mexican ...