Tag: tuba

Treble & Bass

Czech midget showman Baron Richard Nowak, 19, stands 19 inches high & weighs 17 lbs., while posing on pedestal on the midway at the Hamid-Morton Circus next to one of the band’s tuba players. Location: Trenton, NJ, US. Date taken: July 1940. Photographer: John Phillips.

[Top image (uncolorized) found here; caption and bottom photo found here.]

What a Low Blow

Built by Bohland & Fuchs in 1912, the sub bass uber tuba was nicknamed “Big Carl” and was housed at the offices of Carl Fischer, Inc., New York, NY.

[Top photo from 2014 found here via here; bottom photo and history here.]

UPDATE: Video h/t Corrine L.

The Macroscope

October 1923: A young girl looking into the mouthpiece of a tuba during the National Band Festival at Crystal Palace, south London.

[Found here.]