How did you become a tuba player? Bolton: Well, I started band in the fourth grade on trumpet, and I was a terrible trumpet player. Out of 12 kids, I was the 12th chair for three years.

As a tuba player throughout high school ... Robotics Competition team at the School at Marygrove in Detroit. “The kids call me ‘Coach P,’ but I’m more like a cheerleader because the ...

Sean Turner, a band director at Whiteaker Middle School in Keizer, has participated as a musician in the annual assembly of tuba players since he was about ten years old. Now as a band ...

Tuba enthusiasts celebrated the 15th annual TubaChristmas on an unseasonably warm afternoon on Sunday at Valparaiso University. Reid Venstrom, 9, of Valparaiso, came in shorts. “I just like the ...

Any mistake a tuba player makes is immediately obvious because of the size of the instrument. I began band in fifth grade as a trumpet, because I thought the instrument looked cool. I was only 10 ...

(gentle orchestral music) I know that I'm supposed to be a tuba player, because I love playing the big fat, we call them footballs, whole notes, and I love just laying down that carpet for the ...

Tuba, sousaphone, euphonium and baritone horn players of all ages and abilities will be playing in “TubaChristmas” concerts. Nationwide, it’s the 51st year that such displays of Christmas ...