sousaphonen.
/ˈsuːzəfəʊn/ A large bass wind instrument of the helicon type. Also attributive.
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Helicon1875
sousaphone1925
1925 Punch 27 May 561/3 An instrument called the Sousaphone weighs eighteen pounds and is twenty feet long.
1927 Daily Express 24 Nov. 12 Jazz music, which depends so much on the rhythm, created mainly by the bass notes of the drums, sousaphone and, sometimes, double bass.
1935 Punch 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’.
1939 Internat. 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 R. P. Blesh & H. Janis They all played Ragtime iv. 73 The brasses included exotica like flügelhorn, euphonium, French horn, and Sousaphone.
1974 P. De Vries Glory of Hummingbird i. 4 The sousaphone tuba he played in the local marching band.
Draft additions 1993
souˈsaphonist n. a performer on the sousaphone.
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sousaphonist1934
1934 in N. Webster Dict.
1949 Instrumentalist Nov.–Dec. 22/1 (advt.) The sousaphone chair-stand... A must for beginner or girl sousaphonist.
1989 Washington Post 19 Mar. g11/1 All exceptional musicians, but the standouts are saxophonist Roger Lewis, bandleader/trumpeter Gregory Davis and sousaphonist Kirk Joseph.
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