Sousaphone!

As a low brass player, I'd say a sousaphone is in the tuba family: the lowest common brass instruments, an octave below trombones and baritones/euphoniums.

A sousaphone in particular is a marching tuba (named after composer John Philip Sousa), constructed to wrap around the player and place the load on the shoulder, with the bell projecting the sound forward instead of up.

Another type of marching tuba is a contra, more common in drum and bugle corps. It looks like a normal concert tuba but with a 90-degree twist to the valves and mouthpiece pipe so that it also rests on the shoulder with the bell facing forward.

I've always wondered, are sousaphones the same as tubas? My ears can't tell if there's a difference in sound.

A straight alto saxophone, an inverted sousaphone, a trombone which coils under the arm, and that cornet or whatever it is is just weird. Anyone else find the instruments stranger than the performance?

Needs more sousaphone.

HAHA!!

In reply to this comment by rottenseed:
tuba...sousaphone...either way it equates to not getting laid.

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Thats what im seeing... all the crazy characters and everything...

>> ^Fjnbk:
It's actually a sousaphone, designed by and named after John Philip Sousa.

^It's actually a know-it-all, designed by and named after its geek parents.

tuba...sousaphone...either way it equates to not getting laid.

It's okay to call a sousaphone a tuba. Don't be such a dweeb, Fjnbk!

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Next up:
"Sousaphone Player Pwned by Annoying Kid's Mom."

Thanks! Corrected.

In reply to this comment by Fjnbk:
It's actually a sousaphone, designed by and named after John Philip Sousa.

It's actually a sousaphone, designed by and named after John Philip Sousa.