Get to know Tuba better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like sousaphone or brass.
Tuba in a sentence
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Tuba meaning
- A large brass musical instrument, usually in the bass range, played through a vibration of the lips upon the mouthpiece and fingering of the keys.
- A large reed stop in organs.
Synonyms of Tuba
Using Tuba
- The main meaning on this page is: A large brass musical instrument, usually in the bass range, played through a vibration of the lips upon the mouthpiece and fingering of the keys. | A large reed stop in organs.
- Useful related words include: bass horn, sousaphone, brass, brass instrument.
- In the example corpus, tuba often appears in combinations such as: the tuba, tuba city, tuba in.
Context around Tuba
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 14 start, 5 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tuba
- In this selection, "tuba" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, wagner, bass, concert, city, sounding and main stand out and add context to how "tuba" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 4 in tuba benguet damaging and a bb tuba by three. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tuba" sits close to words such as abrogation, agnew and airman, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tuba
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The largest tuba is the contrabass tuba (Besson) and is the lowest. (12 words)
Tuba main The tuba is the largest and lowest-pitched brass instrument. (12 words)
Tuba sizes are usually denoted by a quarter system, with 4/4 designating a normal, full-size tuba. (18 words)
The bass tuba in F is pitched a fifth above the BB tuba and a fourth above the CC tuba, so it needs additional tubing length beyond that provided by four valves to play securely down to a low F as required in much tuba music. (46 words)
Traditional British-style brass band parts for the tuba are usually written in treble clef, with the B tuba sounding two octaves and one step below and the E tuba sounding one octave and a major sixth below the written pitch. (41 words)
The third valve is long enough to lower the pitch of a BB tuba by three semitones, but it is not long enough to lower the pitch of an A tuba by three semitones. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
The bass tuba in F is pitched a fifth above the BB tuba and a fourth above the CC tuba, so it needs additional tubing length beyond that provided by four valves to play securely down to a low F as required in much tuba music.
A tuba with its tubing wrapped for placing the instrument on the player's lap is usually called a concert tuba or simply a tuba.
Traditional British-style brass band parts for the tuba are usually written in treble clef, with the B tuba sounding two octaves and one step below and the E tuba sounding one octave and a major sixth below the written pitch.
Tuba City Warrior Marcal Whiterock (25) is taken to the ground by Winslow Bulldog Chris Curnutte (82) on Friday night in Tuba City.
It uses a horn mouthpiece and is available as a single tuba in B or F, or, more recently, as a double tuba similar to the double horn.
Jazz "Kaiserbass" (tuba in B♭) and cornet The tuba has been used in jazz since the genre's inception.
Most music for the tuba is written in bass clef in concert pitch, so tuba players must know the correct fingerings for their specific instrument.
The largest tuba is the contrabass tuba (Besson) and is the lowest.
The "Small Swiss Tuba in C" is a tenor tuba pitched in C, and provided with 6 valves to make the lower notes in the orchestral repertoire possible.
The third valve is long enough to lower the pitch of a BB tuba by three semitones, but it is not long enough to lower the pitch of an A tuba by three semitones.
Tuba main The tuba is the largest and lowest-pitched brass instrument.
Tuba sizes are usually denoted by a quarter system, with 4/4 designating a normal, full-size tuba.
Wagner tuba main The Wagner tuba is a rare brass instrument that is essentially a horn modified to have a larger bell throat and a vertical bell.
A Tuba City mother will go the extra mile for her son, but financially, she doesn’t know if she can keep going to those lengths.
Michael is an accomplished tuba player and came to the U.S. on a tour with a Salvation Army band in 1991.
Violet White, a Leupp resident, was arrested on June 5th and taken to the Tuba City Adult Corrections after a physical altercation occurred between her and Chapter Manager Marjorie Sangster.
A landslide also hit Kennon Road at Camp 4 in Tuba, Benguet, damaging and trapping several vehicles going to and leaving Baguio on Tuesday.
Before becoming the Tuba Festival, Borbon initially celebrated the Silmugi Festival, derived from the town’s old name.
Born Brian Keith Flowers, he got his first taste for music in the Royal Air Force in the 1950s, where he served for nine years as a bandsman playing the tuba.
During his youth, Gavrieli was a passionate musician, playing the tuba and eventually performing with the Israel Defence Forces Orchestra for part of his service.
Common combinations with tuba
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the tuba 20×
- tuba city 10×
- tuba in 8×
- tuba is 7×
- tuba and 6×
- tuba or 4×
- in tuba 4×
- and tuba 4×
- bass tuba 3×
- bb tuba 3×