I took up the tuba because of Charles Daellenbach. I saw them in concert in Tacoma about twenty-five years ago, and got all their autographs on the liner-notes booklet from my CD of their Baroque album.

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It's almost always used as musical shorthand for fat, comical, clumsy, slow, stupid. I hate that.

Even the great John Williams used the tuba that way, in Otis's Theme from "Superman, The Movie", and Jabba's Theme from "Return Of The Jedi".

But James Horner actually let the tuba be beautiful, especially in his music for the launch scene in "Apollo 13."

And Ludwig Goransson made the tuba bad-ass, in his cue from "The Mandalorian" soundtrack "You Are A Mandalorian."