He didn’t miss a beat. A Texas Southern University tuba player swiftly knocked out an obnoxious heckler during a football game Saturday before carrying on playing his instrument. Video taken ...

When he started TubaChristmas, famed tuba player Harvey Phillips wanted his instrument to have its own moment in the spotlight. The tradition began in 1974 as a tribute to Phillips' own tuba ...

The tuba weighs between 40-60 pounds, and is the largest instrument in the marching band. Carrying this weight for extended periods, and swinging the horn around our bodies eventually wears you down.

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TubaChristmas is a time for tuba and euphonium players to gather together and play their instruments for the public. "It's fun," Chris Sherman, who conducts and organizes the annual event, said.

The instruments were as varied as the players, who ranged in age from 10 to 87. Among the brass were tubas in various keys, euphoniums, sousaphones and even a serpent-like “ophicleide ...

The low brass notes of roughly ninety tubas and euphoniums settled into the corners of the Historic Elsinore Theatre Saturday afternoon. Renditions of popular Christmas carols coupled with newly ...

The Christmas season rang in Downtown Crossing with a distinctive low note or, rather, 100 such low notes as just as many regional brass instrument players assembled for Boston's annual TubaChristmas.

Many times, the tuba player is stuck way back in the orchestra and only gets to come forward for a few oompahs each song. Mankato’s TubaChristmas event is different. That’s ...

Instruments once played by top-shelf brass players, in the CSO and elsewhere, have made their way into Hagstrom, Friedman and Batallán’s collections.