Well, we think you should buy a tuba. Here’s why. Technically, this tuba is a sousaphone, a valved brass instrument with the same tube length and musical range as other tubas. A sousaphone is ...

But it’s hard to miss “the hardest-blowing man” in the New Orleans-style brass band. He’s the one playing the sousaphone. Or is it the tuba? “That’s the most common question I get.

South Carolina has long been a crucible of racial friction, a truth tragically brought to light last month when 21-year-old Dylann Roof murdered nine African-Americans at Emanuel African Methodist ...

the prevailing consensus among people who have yet to take a good selfie—though a helpful band geek did come through with a defense of the sousaphone player, who it seems was not acting with ...

"Every little nick and ding on that horn has a story behind it from a different place in the world, a different memory." The Preservation Hall tuba was returned on Monday. "I spent the day ...