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 ...

This “Progressive Balancing in Staccato-Advanced Progressive Technical Exercises for Bass and Contrabass Tuba” is entirely dedicated to the study of the staccato. This essay is indeed composed by a ...

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.

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 ...