Six musicians are in a circle in the living room — on one side, trumpet and trombone; on the other, cello, viola and violin; and in the middle, the elephant in the room — Stewart's tuba.

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 ...

Miller: Chuck, what about you? 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 ...

Gil Evans and trumpet virtuoso Dizzy Gillespie. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) BOB STEWART: He was like Dizzy Gillespie on the tuba. CORNISH: That's fellow tuba player Bob Stewart. (SOUNDBITE ...

A tuba is also much harder for a thief to pilfer than, say, a piccolo, or even a trumpet. Yet from 2011 to 2013, tubas started disappearing from high schools in Southern California, for no obvious ...

11/24/2018 November 24, 2018 Meute from Hamburg calls itself a "techno marching band": It re-arranges electro tracks for a brass band. The result is sure to get you hopping, and has plenty of fans ...