Tuba vs Contrabassoon - What's the difference?
tuba | contrabassoon |
A large brass musical instrument, usually in the bass range, played through a vibration of the lips upon the mouthpiece and fingering of the keys.
* 1990 , Thomas D. Rossing, The Science of Sound? , page 230
(musical instruments) A larger version of the bassoon sounding one octave lower, having a technique similar to the bassoon but offers more resistance in every way.
As nouns the difference between tuba and contrabassoon
is that tuba is a large brass musical instrument, usually in the bass range, played through a vibration of the lips upon the mouthpiece and fingering of the keys while contrabassoon is a larger version of the bassoon sounding one octave lower, having a technique similar to the bassoon but offers more resistance in every way.tuba
English
(wikipedia tuba)Noun
(en noun)- One version of the large tuba , popular in marching bands, is called a sousaphone in honor of bandsman John Philip Sousa.
