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I can't tell if you're serious, VIF. A sousaphone is just a tuba that's designed to be marched with. I was kidding at first, but now I'm about to rage on you!!!!!!!
 
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Thrasher865 said:
I can't tell if you're serious, VIF. A sousaphone is just a tuba that's designed to be marched with. I was kidding at first, but now I'm about to rage on you!!!!!!!
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Yeah, that's why they designed the clarinet because of that cumbersome oboe. Let's not forget the downsize for the flute to the piccolo. Oh yea I forgot, it's easier to march with a triangle than that silly xylophone.
I think you are speaking of the helicon which is a coiled tuba used in military marching bands.:whistling:
 
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ZOMG a flute is a family of instruments, dumbo! To which the piccolo belongs!

A Sousaphone IS a tuba and I will not rest until your entire race of people is brought together in one place and made to watch you eat your own foot!
 
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From wikipedia!!!!!!!!!!!!:

The sousaphone is a type of tuba that is widely employed in marching bands. Designed so that it fits around the body of the musician and is supported by the left shoulder, the sousaphone may be readily played while being carried. The instrument is named after American bandmaster and composer John Philip Sousa, who popularized its use in his band.


The sousaphone was developed in the 1890s at the request of John Philip Sousa, who was unhappy with the hélicons used at that time by the United States Marine Band. The first sousaphone was either developed by J.W. Pepper,[1] in 1893, or by C.G. Conn, in 1898. The hélicon is an instrument that is wrapped in a helical shape and can thus be worn around the player's body, facilitating marching activities. Most tuba-sized hélicons have a bell which points between straight up and to the player's left, and the bell is similar in size to that of a common European-style upright tuba. Sousa wanted a tuba that would send sound upward and over the band with a full warm tone, much like a concert (upright) tuba, an effect which could not be achieved with the more directional hélicon bell position. The new hélicon requested by Sousa would have an oversized bell pointing straight up, but otherwise would be like a normal hélicon.
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I'm poking a voodoo doll of you with a needle as we converse!!!!!!!
 
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