This is a slide show talking to teachers and students looking to buy new instruments. It explains that there can be many differences between similar instruments. It explains that the choices you make will affect your skill level.

1. By: Brian Cormier
Similar
Instruments
in
Different
Styles

2. Tuba
Comparisons:
• Style
• Valve Type
• Pitch
• Material
• Color

3. • Concert
• Contra
• Sousaphone
• Helicon
Tuba Styles

4. The Concert
Tuba
• Concert Band (Bell
on top)
• Silver or
bronze/brass
• keys of Bb, C, Eb,
or F
• 3+ valves (rotor or
piston)

5. The Contra
• Marching Band (Bell to
the front)
• Silver or bronze/brass
• key of Bb (Concert
Pitch)
• 3-4 Piston Valves
• Some convert to
concert form

6. The
Sousaphone
• Marching Band
(Bell to the front)
• Silver, brass, or
white/fiberglass
• key of Bb(concert
Pitch)
• 3 Piston Valves

7. The Helicon
• Marching Band
(Bell to the side)
• Silver or
bronze/brass
• key of Bb (concert
pitch)
• 3 Piston Valves
• Bell to the side

8. Valve Styles
1. Rotor valves
• “French Horn”
valves
2. Piston Valves
• “trumpet” valves

9. # of Valves
• 3+ valves per horn

10. Tuba Pitches
• Aid in Range

11. Summary
The right choice of horn can make a
huge difference in skill level, so be
sure to take into consideration
style, valve type, pitch, material and
color among other things

12. Attributions
Concert tuba:
By Shoesbox (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia
Commons
File:CERVENY WIENER TUBA (Musica Model).jpg- Wikipedia Commons
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CERVENY_WIENER_TUBA_(M
usica_Model).jpg
Sousaphone:
Lucy Liu
Sousaphone … |Flickr Photo Sharing!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/leafvert/4020898445/

13. Attributions cont.
Helicon:
By Matthias Bramboeck (Own work) [GFDL
(http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)], via Wikimedia Commons
File:Helikon-Stowasser-Graz.jpg- Wikipedia Commons
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Helikon-Stowasser-Graz.jpg
Piston:
By PJ, background cropped by EWikist (File:Trumpet 1.jpg) [GFDL
(http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html), CC-BY-SA-3.0
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) or CC-BY-SA-2.5-2.0-1.0
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5-2.0-1.0)], via Wikimedia
Commons
Trumpet_1.png- Wikipedia Commons
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ATrumpet_1.png