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 ...

(Photo by Paul Connors/Media News Group/Boston Herald) A crowd of listeners stops as dozens of brass instrument musicians perform during Boston’s Tuba Christmas at Downtown Crossing Saturday.

Players of low brass instruments can usually be found sitting in the back row of an ensemble, keeping rhythm for the rest of the band and occasionally doubling the melodic lines of other sections.

Notably, some instruments were bigger spreaders than others. On average, brass instruments like tuba, trumpet and trombone spread almost three times as many aerosols as woodwinds such as oboes ...

By Javier C. Hernández As a child growing up in rural Canada, the trombonist Hillary Simms did not realize that women were scarce among players of brass instruments — the tuba, the French horn ...

Last year, as a 9-year-old, he played a real tuba. “This is a great way for people who play the lower brass instruments to come together and have fun,” Reaves says. “Normally, you’re in ...

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 ...