Hey, what's that sound: Tuba

Often viewed as a cartoonish instrument, the Big Daddy of brass bands has trumped its way into popular music, even lending its round, bassy tones to hip-hopWhat is it? The Big Daddy of the brass section. Tubas are treated by a lot of people as funny, fusty, fuddy duddy old things. It could just be down to the sheer size and awkward body-entangling nature of the thing that makes the tuba humorous – it somehow feels like the only people who can pull off the tuba "look" are little old rotund...

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