Shiny Tuba Slanted Perspective Brass Band Coaster

A shiny colorful tuba, part of a Portuguese brass marching band from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The tuba is the biggest and baddest wind instrument, with the deepest pitch. This design is great for a tuba player, musicians of all kinds, music lovers, fans of musical genres such as big band, swing, rhythm and blues, polka, Oktoberfest music, Portuguese musical culture, blues music, jazz music, shiny tubas, you name it. In Latin, the word tuba just means trumpet. In America, a tuba player is a tubist or tubaist; in the United Kingdom, one who plays tuba in a marching band is a bass player, while one who plays tuba in an orchestra is a tuba player. The tuba was patented in 1835 in the Kingdom of Prussia, which was later amalgamated into the larger nation of Germany. Oompah!