The Birth of the Sousaphone
Tuba enthusiast Dave Detwiler unwinds the mystery of the first Sousaphone, the origin of which has been a subject of controversy for over 100 years. Now, the original instrument is restored and ready to play. Watch the story of how it came to be, its loss and finding, and eventual repair and appearance in concert.
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Additional footage filmed at Dillon Music, Woodbridge NJ
Concert footage filmed at Souderton High School, Souderton, PA
Interview filmed at J.W. Pepper Exton, PA
Created by J.W. Pepper
Filmed & Edited by Rocco Richardson
Asst. Filming by Mark Patterson
Photography by Mark Patterson
Interviewer: George Class
Produced by George Class, Rocco Richardson, Jen Tolnay
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Very informative! Good job, Dave.
This is great, thank you
i love how the baby tubas always gotta try to act like their one of us in everything.
Great lecture, but why didn't we hear a bit from the concert?
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It's been confirmed that it has been played publicly in a band by Conrad. http://tubapastor.blogspot.com/2015/10/a-truly-historic-photograph-1896.html
dat monty python opening music
Dig those crazy brass bass horns!
I'd be much more interested in learning about the death of a Sousaphone.
I live right by the farmers market that was found at, trust me it's not an antique store.
i wish he would have been using a Miraphone TU 29 mouthpiece. its so much nicer than the mouthpiece he was holding at 15:28
If i recall, Sousa was looking for a sound that was far less mellow than the sound produced by an upright bell. And thats why Sousaphones have a larger forward facing bell. because the direct sound from the forward facing bell is far less mellow than that the soundwaves produced at the edges of an upright bell. (which is where most of what you hear from an upright bell comes from, the edges of the bell). this is atleast what my research has led my to believe.
Too bad I can't play it for marching band or concert band
So Montgomery County in Mount Sterling? I march in the Montgomery county Highschool band.
He was talking about a chat forum for tuba and euphonium layers. Are there any chat forums for people that play the everything?
I play the Tuba and the Susaphone
What was the first march? It sounds like something I've played before
Too bad the predecessor to the sousaphone, the helicon, wasn't mentioned.
1-14-17. Davy: I do suppose your know of the 20th Century Fox motion picture "Stars and Stripes Forever" [DVD blue Ray $22.62] the film story of John Philip Sousa (Clifton Webb, Ruth Hussey Sousa's wife) in which Robert Wagner introduces? the instrument to Sousa and finally gets to play it in his band. Sousa's life beyond the fact he was the Marine Band's leader left little in the way of good storyline screenwriter Lamar Trotti came up with the idea of Wagner-
and Debra Paget-with the new instrument to boaster the screen play. Your story is also fascinating.