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Blazer85 Wrote:

draak ijveraar Wrote:i keep seeing posts about tubas in our marching band.  i dont remember seeing one tuba in our marching band in the last five years.  i've seen a bunch of sousaphones but no tubas.

Youre correct, but alot of people unfamiliar with marching band wouldnt have a clue what that is. The common person typically refers to them as tubas, but yes... they are technically sousaphones.

I hate those "common" people.

draak ijveraar Wrote:i keep seeing posts about tubas in our marching band. i dont remember seeing one tuba in our marching band in the last five years. i've seen a bunch of sousaphones but no tubas.

For marching band purposes, they're interchangeable--however, technically, you are right.

R-6 Wrote:

Blazer85 Wrote:Just stopped by the band office, and discovered the band will be larger.  And quite a bit larger at that.  Last year we had about 116 people... this year, we have already 170 enrolled in the class.  Ms. Samuels is hoping to have it up to 180 by the start of school.  Looks like the band may finally be growing.  We grew in some pretty key sections too.  Last year we had 8 tubas... this year, thus far, we have 12 already. 

PS-  About 16 saxophones, Sax.    ...even more than last year.

Thats great! Maby JSU will not steal the show!

LOL.

I'll go ahead and predict that JSU's band will embarass ours badly. Their program has been around for 40 years long than ours.

BlazerSax Wrote:

draak ijveraar Wrote:i keep seeing posts about tubas in our marching band.  i dont remember seeing one tuba in our marching band in the last five years.  i've seen a bunch of sousaphones but no tubas.

For marching band purposes, they're interchangeable--however, technically, you are right.

it would make more sense for people to call them helicons than tubas.