Calling all tubas: Players and champions of the big brass instrument are invited to haul themselves and their tubas to the Empire State Plaza on Sunday, Dec. 3, for a “TubaChristmas” gathering at the ...

The tuba is often relegated to the back of an orchestra or the butt of a joke, but tuba lovers — the few and the proud — are passionate about their chosen instrument. So much so that there's an annual ...

When the term heavy metal was coined, no one was envisioning 70 tuba players. But that was how John Huenink referred to the assemblage of instruments as he talked to more than 200 people gathered on ...

Among brass instruments, the tuba is as big as you can go. But that didn't stop artisans in Germany from trying to make the big brother of the brass family even bigger. In 2010, 20 local artists from ...

Tubas, euphoniums, baritones, sousaphones and other big brass instruments will play classic Christmas tunes Saturday in Westminster, as the second annual Westminster TubaChristmas event comes to town.

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