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As a retired instrumental music teacher in the D.C. Public Schools, a brass instrument major in college and a euphonium soloist on the old "Original Amateur Hour ...

Banished to the orchestra’s back row, the tuba is rarely highlighted on its own. Playing one is an exercise in breath control.

It hardly seems fair that Kelly Galarneau gets the most questions of anyone in Brass Differential and yet has the least amount of air to expend on things like casual conversation. But it’s hard to ...

Fans may rave about the tuba players in the UC Berkeley Marching Band. Technically, though, they’re playing sousaphones — and the Cal Band calls them “basses.” Whatever you call them, though, those ...

Julius Mckee is a member of The Dirty Dozen Brass Band in New Orleans. He's also one of the premier sousaphone players in the country. In the first of a four-part series, Mckee discusses the joy of ...

Sousaphones, typically relegated to the remote reaches of the band room and back areas of the stage, marched into the limelight at the New Orleans Jazz Fest on Saturday afternoon, hijacking center ...

Andy Sorensen dressed his sousaphone up as Santa Clause. He's been performing at Anchorage TubaChristmas for 15 years. (Rhonda McBride/KNBA) The sounds that came from the Anchorage Performing Arts ...