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.

or notes. Outlets couldn't decide if it was a sousaphone or a tuba. "He lost his microphone in a tuba," Fox News reporter Steve Doocy said. "Which is more embarrassing, to be the guy who ...

Q: What’s the difference between a tuba and a sousaphone? A: Actually, they are musically identical. The coiled length of a tuba is condensed, so it can be held within one person’s arms (while ...

COX: That's Julius Mckee, sousaphone player for The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, and a master of music's lower frequencies. Listen for others who lay claim to the same title as our occasional series on ...

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 ...

Joseph, a founding member of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, led an all-star lineup of New Orleans sousaphone players including the ubiquitous Matt Perrine, Edward Lee with the Soul Rebels Brass Band ...

Jaffe's sousaphone tuba, manufactured by Mario Corso, is boldly marked with the name Preservation Hall on the bell. The band is offering a reward for the return of the tuba or for anonymous tips.

Most tuba players in New Orleans play the sousaphone, a kind of tuba designed by John Philip Sousa himself to be easier to carry, with a wider bore for warmer sound and a forward-facing bell for ...