tuba: Quick Facts

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Illustration of wind instruments grouped by type, showing woodwinds-tenor saxophone, clarinet, flute, oboe, bassoon-and brass instruments-horn, trumpet, trombone, and tuba.

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Topics

Wagner tuba helicon euphonium Brass instrument trumpet trombone horn bugle cornet cornett serpent saxhorn lur flügelhorn

Key People

John Philip Sousa.

John Philip Sousa

American composer

Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1957, wearing a dark suit and bow tie, with a serious expression and a brick wall in the background.

Ralph Vaughan Williams

English composer

Gong. Closeup of a khong wong gong circle chime. Thai classical musical instrument, part of piphat ensemble. (percussion, music)

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Young girl wearing a demin jacket playing the trumpet (child, musical instruments, Asian ethnicity)

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