What is the somaphone?

Tubas - including its own baritone, euphonia, somaphone and tuba - in the form of one of the four main groups into which the brass family of instruments is often divided, along with trumpets, thrombones and corners. Sourspone is a type of bass tube that is used - as a marching tube - in marching in marching bands, although in the first days it was also used in the settings of concert bands. The somaphone is not used in a modern orchestra. The Concept of the SomaPhone Was Created by the American Composer and Bandmaster John Philip Sousa, Putting It In A Category with the Wagner Tuba - and Horn Conceptualized by German Composer Richard Wagner - and Saxophone, One of the Numerous Inventions Adolphe sax.

Sousa Created the Specifications for the First Sousaphones, WHICH WERE modeling on the instrument Called and Helicon, which wings around the player, rests on the left shoulder and built in the 90s of the 20th century. Asked for a bell design that led to the nickname “The Rain-Catcher ", and only at the beginning of the twentieth century was the first model Bell-Forward. In southern Europe is actually called Helicon .

While both the marching tubas and the sousafons are designed to be transmitted, the somaphone is significant in the surrounding of the player, so it almost seems to be worn rather than carried. From the 1960s, the metal structure of glass fiber bodies was replaced by the tools, making the tools easier, easier to handle and less susceptible to dentists.

SomaPhone, just like a tube, can be built in EB or BB and is a non -transparent tool. Because it is sometimes used outside the playground and the show, a special "somaPhone chair" was developed in the concert environment. The chair has braces to support the instrument, so the seated player does not have to carry the weight. Harry Wenger, a music educator and inventor, holds a patent on the Somaphone chair. The chair allowed children to beLy too small to support the instrument to learn to play.

Among the remarkable players of the somaphone from the twentieth first century are Tuba Gooding, Jr. In the hip hop band The Roots and Nat Mcintosh in the brass band Youngblood. The remarkable brass band New Orleans Soursaphone is Kirk Joseph of The Dirta Zen Brass Band and his teacher, Anthony "Tuba Fats" Lacen, was a well -known soushonist at the end of the twentieth century.