The Perfect Tuba by Sam Quinones ISBN 9781639735495, 1639735496 instant download

The Perfect Tuba by Sam Quinones ISBN 9781639735495, 1639735496 instant download

In this book by Sam Quinones the author tells the story of a demanding instrument, the determined people who play it, and the hope they offer a fractured nation.
The tuba's sound is mighty, emerging, it seems, from deep in the human body. Very little music has, up until recently, been written to play to its strengths. The best the tuba seems to promise is a seat at the back of the band. No stadium shows, no Internet adulation. And yet, this horn-the youngest of all brass instruments-has captured the hearts of an inspired group of musicians ever since its invention in 1835.
In The Perfect Tuba, Sam Quinones embarks on a trek to get to know American tubists. He tells the astounding stories of two men who set out to replicate the "perfect tuba," an instrument made by York & Sons in the 1930s and never since equaled; of Big Bill Bell, whose 1950s album rearranged the tuba landscape; and of Arnold Jacobs, a tuba guru at the...