Jon Hodkin is on his second tricycling tour through the Midwest as part of a musical journey up the Mississippi River. Early in his travels through Minnesota, a Lake City boat club helped ferry him ...

There comes a time in every tuba player’s education when they want their very own tuba. You can get by renting from your teacher, school, or music school, but eventually, it’s time to buy a tuba so ...

As any musician knows, it takes a lot of brass to be a tuba player. Generally, tubas range in size from the B-flat tenor (10 Ibs., 151 in. of tubing), which is hugged to the player’s chest and ...

For some years now, the tuba has been going through a metamorphosis. Call it, as I do, a Tuba Civil Rights Movement. People long associated the instrument with polkas, elephants, clowns, and players ...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. So you want to buy a tuba. Or you’re thinking of buying a ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Everybody knows what a tuba is. As usual, everyone is wrong. There is no ...

The tuba players mass by the hundreds every year on the Rockefeller Center ice-skating rink to play carols and other festive fare, a holiday ritual now ingrained in the consciousness of New York. The ...

The tuba is scratched and dented, worn from use. The man looks similarly battered, wheezing for breath, stiff from arthritis, barely able to walk. They seem a peculiar pair, the feeble man and his ...

Richard White is one of America's best tuba players, and one of a small number of black orchestral musicians. He talks about homelessness, ambition, racism, and his ‘tuba ranch.’ Senior Editor and ...