Tubas, euphoniums, baritones, sousaphones and other big brass instruments will play classic Christmas tunes Saturday in Westminster, as the second annual Westminster TubaChristmas event comes to ...

Gallery: Leonard Byrne, Spokane’s king of big brass instruments, some common and some very uncommon, has died. He was the principal tubist in the Spokane Symphony for 48 years.

On a few of those occasions, brass instruments provided a big boost.In some cases, it was one horn player delivering the goods, while in others, a whole slew of brass instrumentalists contributed.