Invented in the late 1960s by Emmett Chapman ... eminently accessible and no relation to oom-pah-pah. The tuba is a mass of brass, bulky and heavy; Kac rests his in his lap while seated to ...

First, it's a relatively young instrument: The brass tuba was invented in the 1830s. And second, some folks think the only use of the tuba is to be loud. Phillips, Quade says, was personally ...

Everybody knows what a tuba is. As usual, everyone is wrong. There is no clear definition of the instrument, and there are more than a dozen that have been given the name. Wagner invented two of ...

Bill Barber, 87, a musician who helped refashion the jazz tuba from its predictable oompah passages to suit the complex melodies and rhythms of Miles Davis and other postwar jazz modernists ...