Concert band
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A concert band, also called a wind band, wind ensemble, wind symphony, wind orchestra, symphonic band, symphonic winds, or symphonic wind ensemble, is a performing ensemble consisting of members of th
A full concert band—Indiana Wind Symphony in concert, 2014
A military band—The United States Army Band
A high school concert band—BHS Band in performance, 2013
The early instrumentation of a large concert band (including violin soloist Nicoline Zedeler) is shown by the John Philip Sousa Band during their 1911 world tour.
Tuba
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The tuba is a large brass instrument in the bass-to-contrabass range. It is a member of the valved bugles, a large and diverse family of instruments characterized by their wide conical bore and use of
A bass tuba in F with front-action piston valves
Chink Martin (far left) on sousaphone in Johnny Bayersdorffer's Novelty Orchestra, New Orleans, 1922
The jazz recordings on Birth of the Cool (1957) by Miles Davis are some of the first to use tuba, recorded 1949–50
Euroband musicians with fiberglass sousaphones