The size most commonly used in the orchestra is called the contrabass-tuba, or double-bass tuba.
Both factors contribute to the Wagner tuba's reputation for being fiendishly difficult to play in tune.
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True, earlier this month there was an arson attack at the mosque in Tuba Zanghariya in the Galilee.
The TUBA is the biggest, heaviest, widest, and lowest-pitched of the brass instruments, the true bass of the family.
There are larger physical challenges as well, since Wagner tuba players double on the French horn during the "Ring" when needed.
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"The last tuba player and the band haven't necessarily been on the same stand, but now we're almost there, " says Toyota's Convis.
Because of its range and mouthpiece, this tuba-shaped hybrid is actually played by members of the French horn section, but never mind.
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Last week I joined Navajo Nation leaders and Department of Justice officials in Tuba City, Arizona for the groundbreaking of a new corrections facility.
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As the Cold War heated up in the 1950s, Tuba City experienced a bit of prosperity during a uranium mining boom in the area.
Food writer Waverly Root calls garlic the "tuba" of the spice orchestra--rotund and ridiculous, perhaps, but essential to the complex "tonality" of a dish.
The trumpet would be four to five and a half feet, the trombone nine to thirteen feet, and the tuba sixteen to twenty-six feet.
This can be done using either valves as on the French horn, trumpet, and tuba or a slide, as on the trombone.
Residents of Tuba Zanghariya torched their own clinic and community center.
Solo opportunities for tuba players outside the orchestra are few, although the English composer Ralph (pronounced "Rafe") Vaughan Williams wrote a fine concerto for tuba and orchestra (1954).
It's not surprising, in view of his many innovations in orchestral instrumentation and sonority, that Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) was the first important composer to write for the tuba.
Like the trombone, the tuba comes in several different sizes.
For instance, continuous harassment by Arabs from the village of Tuba Zangaria forced Kibbutz Kfar Hanassi just east of Rosh Pinna to abandon 4, 000 dunams (400 hectares) of land.
Mr. SEGELL: The simple explanation technologically was that he placed a clarinet mouthpiece on the body of an offaclyde(ph) which was the forerunner of the tuba, a great big instrument.
In the "Ring, " four Wagner tubas join an enlarged brass section that includes other orchestral rarities like the bass trumpet, contrabass trombone and contrabass tuba, creating "choirs" of gleaming brass.
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Today we audition a sax, a tuba, and a banjo, but sax and banjo keep hogging the stage and tuba covers her ears as soon as we start to play.
"She incited unfortunate youngsters to commit murder against Tutsis during meetings, as evidenced by the song she sang, 'Tuba Tsembe Tsembe', which means 'let's exterminate them all', " Judge Rene Elkerbout said.
With help from Nora Guthrie, Wenzel chose 14 songs, translated them into German, and composed music for them in the style of classic Weimar cabaret complete with a tuba and brass section.
Mr. BENNIE PETE (Tuba Player, Hot 8 Brass Band): We knew they were there because that's where they were housing the evacuees, and we just showed up and, you know, we were going there with - on our mind to kind of just show what we had, to share with each other that we were united.
The first thing one notices on the majority of the 171 tracks here is the way the band swings as a whole, whether in the syncopated two-beat of the 1929-30 sessions, which employ a banjo and tuba in the rhythm section, or in the more smoothed-out solid-four grooves of the band in the war years, propelled by guitar and bass in addition to Hines himself.
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