Buy Handmade Sousaphone Brass Tuba $925.00. 2. Brass Sousaphone Bb Big Bell Tubas. We like that this sousaphone’s white brass finish sets it apart from the typical gold brass.

Fans may rave about the tuba players in the UC Berkeley Marching Band. Technically, though, they’re playing sousaphones — and the Cal Band calls them “basses.” Whatever you call them ...

Last week, as the Klan revival group waved their Confederate flags through Columbia, South Carolina, Buck marched alongside them, huffing into his sousaphone (a version of the tuba modified for ...

Most tuba players in New Orleans play the sousaphone, a kind of tuba designed by John Philip Sousa himself to be easier to carry, with a wider bore for warmer sound and a forward-facing bell for ...

Fans may rave about the tuba players in the UC Berkeley Marching Band. Technically, though, they’re playing sousaphones — and the Cal Band calls them “basses.” Whatever you call them ...

Actually, a sousaphone is a type of tuba. A sousaphone is easier to carry and is used for marching. Don't get too obsessed with the difference. Jimmy Kimmel will make fun of you.

But the tuba – namely the circular kind called a sousaphone – is big. And it requires a lot of air. And it scares little kids. And it’s not exactly cool.