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sousaphone|ˈsuːzəfəʊn|
Also Sousaphone.
[f. the name of John Philip Sousa (1854–1932), American bandmaster and composer, after saxophone, etc. (see also quot. 1939).]
A large bass wind instrument of the helicon type. Also attrib.
1925Punch 27 May 561/3 An instrument called the Sousaphone weighs eighteen pounds and is twenty feet long. 1935Ibid. 23 Oct. 470/2 As it was removed from its case he saw that it was a sousaphone—the instrument that plays the ‘oom’ in Viennese waltzes while the rest of the orchestra follows with the ‘wump wump’. 1939Internat. Cycl. Mus. 1772/2 The first sousaphone was made by C. G. Conn in 1899 expressly for Sousa's band and its bell opened directly upward. The present bell⁓front type was first made in 1908. 1958[see exotica]. 1974P. De Vries Glory of Hummingbird i. 4 The sousaphone tuba he played in the local marching band.
Add: Hence souˈsaphonist n., a performer on the sousaphone.
1934in Webster. 1949Instrumentalist Nov.–Dec. 22/1 (Advt.), The sousaphone chair-stand... A must for beginner or girl sousaphonist. 1989Washington Post 19 Mar. g11/1 All exceptional musicians, but the standouts are saxophonist Roger Lewis, bandleader/trumpeter Gregory Davis and sousaphonist Kirk Joseph. |