Tubas in a sentence

Among advanced players, four and five valve tubas are by far the most common choices, with six-valve tubas being relatively rare except among F tubas, which mostly have five or six valves.

Many professionals in the U.S. play CC tubas, with BB also common, and many train in the use of all four pitches of tubas.

Tubas with the bell pointing forward (pavillon tournant) instead of upward are often called recording tubas because of their popularity in the early days of recorded music, as their sound could more easily be directed at the recording microphone.

Variations Some tubas are capable of being converted into a marching style, known as "marching tubas".

According to the ministry, Amir Wahdan, 14, was killed in Tubas in the northern West Bank, where the army said troops had gone in to arrest "two wanted suspects".

Each fall, as school starts up again, music educators witness a familiar ritual: Eager first-time students squeak on a clarinet, suppress giggles at the noises coming from the tubas and zealously hit a bass drum a little too hard.

The sounds that came from the Anchorage Performing Arts Center this weekend were bright and brassy — yet, very, very low and deep, which is what you would expect from a room full of tubas.

Concurrently, Palestinian Resistance in the city of Tubas confronted the Zionist regime’s forces, where several Resistance combatants participated in attacks against Israeli occupation forces.

The Palestinian Red Crescent in Tubas said that its crews were dealing with two injuries from live bullets, who were taken to the hospital.

The wry tubas and trombones that accentuate the opening section.

From trumpets mimicking guitars to tubas used for the bass line, Henderson said the band adapted the song to their range of instruments.

The school provides many large instruments such as tubas and euphoniums, but parents are responsible for buying smaller instruments such as flutes, clarinets and trumpets.

Compensating valves Some tubas have a compensating system to allow accurate tuning when using several valves in combination, simplifying fingering and removing the need to constantly adjust slide positions.

In addition, the original version calls for 3 onstage trumpets and 4 onstage Wagner tubas (2 tenor and 2 bass).

In CC tubas with five valves, the fifth valve may be tuned as a flat whole step or as a minor third depending on the instrument.

In modern jazz, tubas usually fill the traditional bass role, though it is not uncommon for them to take solos.

Most often tubas and euphoniums will be combined into a studio taught by one professor, and at small schools they may be grouped with trombones and/or French horns as well, taught by one low brass professor.

Resonance and false tones Some tubas have a strong and useful resonance that is not in the well-known harmonic series.

Rudolstadt 2012 The sousaphone is a valved brass instrument with the same tube length and musical range as other tubas.

Some euphoniums and tubas were built like this, but today, this approach has become highly exotic for all instruments except horns, where it is the norm, usually in a double, sometimes even triple configuration.