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• n  the lowest brass wind instrument

• Through the streets of Rochester, Minn, to the jampacked Mayo Civic Auditorium rolled an eight-car motorcade and four-piece band complete with a noisy sousaphone.
• Full-page photographs of the "camera study" type gave effective close-ups of a locomotive's cylinders spewing steam, of the sousaphone ("oom-pah") horn player at the county fair.
• Part of the trouble is that the color camera is an awkward renderer of wry legends; it is a sousaphone, not a lyre.

• bass horn
• tuba

News & Articles

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• An outsider looking in: My weekend with the Blue Band
  “We are one family with a bunch of different siblings — the piccolos are the sister, the sousaphones are the brother, and so on — each section has a different personality."
  Oct. 29, 2013 - Penn State Collegian