Six musicians are in a circle in the living room — on one side, trumpet and trombone; on the other, cello, viola and violin; and in the middle, the elephant in the room — Stewart's tuba.

A massive, all-tuba holiday concert was the brainchild of Harvey Phillips, a tuba player and enthusiast who would go on to teach in the music school at Indiana University, and start similar tuba ...

WKAR Current Sports reporter never intended to play the tuba, or be part of the section for most of his life. He’s glad the journey took him to the back of the band. There are 300 members in ...

Tuba Christmas kicks off at the Grand Rapids Public Museum, 272 Pearl St. NW, on Sunday, Dec. 22, with hundreds of tuba players, from preteens to the elderly, taking center stage. For the past ...

“So often, as a tubist, you sit in the back going 'bom, bom, bom, bom,” 37-year-old Natalie Sheeler explained as she mimicked the tuba's tell-tale “oompa” sound. Once a year ...

My son plays the tuba in his high-school marching band, and we were wondering how and why the town of Tuba City got its name? As always in such matters I turned to “Arizona Names: X Marks the ...

The tuba players mass by the hundreds every year on the Rockefeller Center ice-skating rink to play carols and other festive fare, a holiday ritual now ingrained in the consciousness of New York.

You know the scene: chestnuts roasting on a crackling open fire, stockings hung by the chimney with care, presents nestled under a brilliantly lit tree … and the dulcet oom-pah-pah of a tuba.