Each fall, as school starts up again, music educators witness a familiar ritual: Eager first-time students squeak on a clarinet, suppress giggles at the noises coming from the tubas and zealously hit a bass drum a little too hard.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/23/opinion/teach-music-better.html

The sounds that came from the Anchorage Performing Arts Center this weekend were bright and brassy — yet, very, very low and deep, which is what you would expect from a room full of tubas.

Source: https://alaskapublic.org/2023/12/19/grin-and-baritone-festive-musicians-fill-anchorages-pac-with-sound-at-tubachristmas/