To play tuba - at least well - doesn’t matter whether you’re male or female. Everyone must strengthen the abdominal muscles, get the lungs in shape and learn the proper use of the embouchure ...

I’ve always said to my students, the art of tuba playing is fast breaths and when to know how to breathe. So someone like me — five-eight, 150 pounds — I could do it? You’d do fine.

whose tuba part consists entirely of eight notes-four at the beginning of the slow movement, four at the very end. ”It`s embarrassing to just sit there not playing for 40 minutes,” he says.

A 20-year-old woman has made it big with the Philadelphia Orchestra: She's been hired to be its tuba player, a job normally held by men in major orchestras.

If you have ever wondered “who plays a tuba?” — and who hasn’t? — you will be able to find an answer, or hundreds of them, Saturday at the venerable and exquisite Palmer House Hilton ...

Turner, a tuba prodigy who grew up in Corvallis, started playing with the UO Tuba Ensemble when he was a sophomore in high school. At the UO, he earned two degrees in music education -- a bachelor ...

Dear Prudence: I live in an apartment in a large city. My elderly neighbor has started playing the tuba and never stops. He isn't talented and blasts out the same few notes over and over for hours ...

While the tuba player might sit in the back with the orchestra, Pat Gallen is putting the instrument front and center on this week's Pat Does That with the help of a special musician.

To be clear, Handler wasn’t actually playing the tuba during the rehearsal for “Il Trovatore,” Verdi’s opera that takes place in a 15th century Spanish town.

Except this isn't just any tuba player - this tuba player likes to play with fire. While I wish it had happened to me, you'll see what I mean when you watch the above video.