tuba

Also known as cuerno bajo, tuba baja, tuba en Si bemol♭, tuba en si♭, bombarda, tuba en do, tuba CC, tuba contrabajo

The tuba (Latin, "trumpet"; ; ) is a large brass instrument in the bass-to-contrabass range with a wide conical bore. It usually has four or five valves, although some models have three and some have six. It first appeared in 1835 in Prussia as the , by adding five valves to a large 12-foot bugle pitched in F. This design provided a fully chromatic contrabass instrument with a deep, full timbre. By the 1850s, Paris instrument designer Adolphe Sax had developed the E and B band tubas with piston valves as part of his saxhorn family, and in the 1870s Václav František Červený in Austria-Hungary d

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The tuba is a large brass instrument with a wide conical bore that produces deep, full-sounding notes in the bass-to-contrabass range, typically equipped with four or five valves to play different pitches. It was invented in 1835 in Prussia as a fully chromatic contrabass instrument and became widely adopted in orchestras and bands throughout the 19th century.

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Instrument.name: Tuba
Instrument.image: Yamaha Bass tuba YFB-822.tif
Instrument.caption: A bass tuba in F with front-action piston valves
Instrument.background: brass
Instrument.hornbostel_sachs: 423.232
Instrument.hornbostel_sachs_desc: Valved lip-reed aerophone with wide conical bore
Instrument.inventors: Wilhelm Friedrich Wieprecht and Johann Gottfried Moritz
Instrument.developed: 1835 in Prussia
Instrument.range: { \new Staff \with { \omit Score.TimeSignature } \clef bass \key c \major \cadenzaOn \omit Stem s4 ^ \markup "F tuba" \arpeggioBracket 1 \arpeggio \once \hide r1 s4 ^ \markup "C tuba" \arpeggioBracket 1 \arpeggio } The tuba has a three octave tessitura above its first pedal tone (see § Range)
Instrument.musicians: List of tubists

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Commons category: Tubas (instrument)
Hornbostel-Sachs classification: 423.232
Commons gallery: Tuba (instrument)

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History
Origins
The first tubas
Early American tubas
The tuba in Italy
Twentieth-century developments
The Chicago Yorks
The tuba in jazz
Construction
Sizes
Quarter designation
Other sizes
Variations
Tubas for marching
Valves
Fourth, fifth, and sixth valves
Compensating valves
Materials and finish
Manufacturers
Performance
Notation
Range
Resonance and false tones
Microtonality
Players
Repertoire
Notes
References
Bibliography
External links

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