Tuba Section
Hi all, its nice to have you here at the tuba section page. Well, let me first introduce you to the tuba before telling you more about the members of the section. Tubas were originally designed to be played while marching instead of while sitting. To begin with the player held the tuba on his shoulder. With the bell pointed forward the sound projects in the direction that the marchers are going. Later the mouthpiece position was switched to the position it is now in and players can sit down and play it. Tuba players change their mouthpieces to go with the music they are playing. Sometimes a tuba player will have 40 mouthpieces! The tuba is often known as the big boomer because it plays mostly the lower notes which the other instruments cannot play. The tuba used to be less popular in its early stages because in European countries the instrument makers kept switching designs for the tuba and changing the name so no one knew exactly what a tuba looked like. This made it hard to find a correctly made tuba or at least ones that were alike. Previously, before our batch of J2s left, the tuba section consisted of seven tuba players, rather impressive right? Right now, what's left of the seven is the two of us. We have both been playing on the tuba for 4 years now, and we hope we can improve our playing and that more tuba players will join us next year! Till then, we will try our best to the support the band and play well for upcoming concerts or performances. Well, the two of us refers to Shaojie of 0902 Past Members2006-2007 2008-2009
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Nanyang Junior College Symphonic Band
