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The Wagner tuba is a narrow-bore tuba with a French-horn mouthpiece. Tubas appeared first in Berlin in the 1820s, soon after the invention of the valve. They were soon accepted into the band and orchestra, displacing the serpent, ophicleide, and other such instruments of poorer tone quality and intonation.
Sousaphones are basically giant tubas. Sousaphones were invented to be a âmarching tubaâ It is called the sousaphone after John Sousa a well known Composer and Conductor; Unlike the tuba the sousaphone has little to no history (it was invented in the late 1800s) LONG LIVE THE TUBA!!