We Want YOU! (To Play the Tuba)
5/2/2025 | 1mVideo has Closed Captions
Learn all about the Tuba!
Learn about the brass section’s biggest instrument from two totally tuba-lar tuba players; high school senior Kennedy and Michigan State student Oluwatobi.
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Dually Noted is a local public television program presented by WKAR
We Want YOU! (To Play the Tuba)
5/2/2025 | 1mVideo has Closed Captions
Learn about the brass section’s biggest instrument from two totally tuba-lar tuba players; high school senior Kennedy and Michigan State student Oluwatobi.
Problems playing video? | Closed Captioning Feedback
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipI didn't choose the tuba.
The choose-a... [laughter] Now, this is going to be hard.
[Jaunty second line music] I started playing the tuba in the sixth grade.
I started playing tuba in seventh grade.
The tuba is a brass instrument, and it's the lowest in the brass instrument family.
It has a really warm sound, and you can feel its presence.
[playing a march] The tuba can have rotary valves or piston valves.
The rotary valves are normally on the concert horns in the front or on the side, and you kind of wrap your arm around.
A sousaphone will always have piston valves.
It's meant to be in outside in marching band contexts, which is why you put it on your body and the bell faces out towards your audience.
Do you want to play something?
Do you want to play the Curnow?
Yes!
[playing Curnow] We play tuba.
And so can you.
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