tuba

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Lorin Tone and Madcow Cosmos have created deliriously adorable avatars that are anthromorphized musical instruments -- tuba, drums, etc.

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  1. noun A large, valved, brass wind instrument with a bass pitch.
  2. noun A reed stop in an organ, having eight-foot pitch.

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  • The addressee (1802-72) was one of the inventors of the bass-tuba, and improved many of the wind instruments Dear Friend, I learn from several Berliners, who have passed through here, that you have had the great kindness to instrument my march "Vom Fels zum Meer" ["From the Rock to the Ocean."] —  Letters of Franz Liszt, Volume 1, "From Paris to Rome: Years of Travel as a Virtuoso,"
  • The province's governor is strongly pushing for the planting of Jatropha, commonly known to many as "tuba-tuba", as feedstock for ethanol production. —  Biodiesel and Ethanol Investing
  • Why bother reviewing books if the review is sent to a like-minded tuba, and even then only appears months after publication? —  Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
  • Lorin Tone and Madcow Cosmos have created deliriously adorable avatars that are anthromorphized musical instruments -- tuba, drums, etc. —  New World Notes
  • But a musical instrument, even a tuba isn ` t very intimidating, she ` s lucky the punks fled after she bashed one of them with her (unnamed) musical instrument. —  The Student Operated Press
 

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  1. Italian, from Latin, trumpet; akin to tubus, tube.

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  1. Malayan tūba.
  2. Latin, a trumpet: see tube.
 

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/ˈtjubə/
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