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A sousaphone-wearing musician waits to parade in St. Remy-de-Provence.
design a tuba that could be carried. The sousaphone was based on the helicon, a much older but awkward instrument that could also be carried. The sousaphone incorporates different features that make it comfortable for the player to carry, as well as to play.
Though there were once jumbo sousaphones that weighed 60 pounds, the average one weighs 30 to 35 pounds, give or take the weight of the music holder. And, would you believe it, there are sousaphones made of fiberglass that weigh only about 15 pounds. No brass there.
As Elizabeth Eshelman, a onetime sousaphone player, wrote, “There’s something about a wearable tuba
that brings out the—goofy? show-off? animalistic? flamboyant? side of the tubist, and when you consider that one must already have a screw loose to choose to play the tuba, you start to realize that the sousaphone is really its own beast.” Next time you’re at a football game or a big parade, make note of the antics of the sousaphone players – they’re a fun bunch. L
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