10 Fun Facts About The Tuba

The Mens Room Daily Podcast

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🗓️ 2 May 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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0:00.0	Miles, what day is it, buddy?
0:01.6	Oh, the first day of May.
0:02.8	You're absolutely right. It's International Tuba Day. The Minterp Topsop T'10. The Minstrup Top Tend! As in the instrument? The instrument, yeah. Hey, man, I played the sousaphone. That's the marching band equivalent of the tuba. You were correct. What's that? I thought that was the baritone. No, bear toads a higher register.
0:23.1	Okay.
0:23.3	Correct.
0:23.7	So the tuba. You were correct. That was the baritone. What's that? I thought that was the baritone.
0:21.5	No, baritone's a higher register.
0:23.1	Correct.
0:23.7	So the tuba, for obvious reasons, if you're in a marching band, you're not trying to carry that son of a bitch. So it's a sousaphone. It's just a wrapper on your body. Right. But you are essentially the tuba. I know people that did carry that damn thing around in the march.
0:35.5	What?
0:35.9	I know.
0:36.7	Were they in trouble?
0:37.7	No, they were huge.
0:39.8	They could have been football players. know people that did carry that damn thing around in the marching? What? I know. Were they in trouble?
0:38.6	No, they were huge.
0:42.9	They could have been football players, but instead they played tuba.
0:43.4	Gotcha.
0:46.0	Now, I don't know why.
0:48.1	We still had a sousaphone in the back.
0:51.8	The sousaphone was designed specifically for the marching band. Right, and I feel like when you think about the marching band,
0:55.2	that's like the first instrument that comes to mind to somebody in that giant
0:59.6	freaking tuba because you're putting the school's logo on the bell.
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