Turner's tuba is both his vocation and his passion. He carries around his mouthpieces to "buzz" tunes wherever he travels. Buzzing tunes through a tuba mouthpiece is a practice technique that ...

The solution, he decided, was not to rewrite the passage but to foster the creation of a new instrument to perform it—the Wagner tuba. Because of its range and mouthpiece, this tuba-shaped ...

Going electric is his latest trick. His tuba is in sync with a sound activated LED system. So, when he blows into his mouthpiece different patterned images appear like a square and a diamond.

I was in the ninth grade at the time, and I had braces on my teeth - but fortunately a tuba mouthpiece is big enough that you can play with braces. So how did the Canadian Brass begin? We started ...