Tuba vs Saxophone - What's the difference?
tuba | saxophone |
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 single-reed instrument musical instrument of the woodwind family, usually made of brass and with a distinctive loop bringing the bell upwards.
As nouns the difference between tuba and saxophone
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 saxophone is a single-reed instrument musical instrument of the woodwind family, usually made of brass and with a distinctive loop bringing the bell upwards.tuba
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(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.
