Definitions

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  • noun Someone who plays the tuba

Etymologies

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tuba + -ist

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Examples

  • Yang Li is a virtuoso pianist . . . and violinist, and guitarist and tubaist.

    Francis Ellen: The Samplist Michael Allen 2005

  • The seven compositions were performed between 1996 and 2000 by some of Germany's finest jazz and new-music players -- including trumpeter Axel Dorner, tubaist Melvyn Poore, cellist Michael Moser, and bassist Alexander Frangenheim -- on traditional acoustic instruments.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • Their concert, which Giordano leads as bassist, tubaist and bass saxophonist, is peppered with names such as Duke Ellington, Benny

    Top Stories from LiveDaily.com 2010

  • Their concert, which Giordano leads as bassist, tubaist and bass saxophonist, is peppered with names such as Duke Ellington, Benny

    Top Stories from LiveDaily.com 2010

  • Their concert, which Giordano leads as bassist, tubaist and bass saxophonist, is peppered with names such as Duke Ellington, Benny

    Top Stories from LiveDaily.com 2010

  • Members of the Territory Band 3 (see September 22 entry) play in two small-group configurations: The first set features tubaist Per-Ake Holmlander, pianist Jim Baker, reedist Fredrik Ljungkvist, and sound manipulator Kevin Drumm, and the second features drummer Paul Lytton, drummer Paal Nilssen-Love, trombonist Jeb Bishop, and reedist Ken Vandermark. sunday September

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • Their concert, which Giordano leads as bassist, tubaist and bass saxophonist, is peppered with names such as Duke Ellington, Benny

    SoundSpike News 2010

  • (KlezMs.), trombonist Curtis Hasselbring (Slavic Soul Party), reedist Matt Darriau (Paradox Trio, Klezmatics), and drummer Aaron Alexander (Hasidic New Wave) as well as tubaist Mark Rubin of punk-bluegrass faves the Bad Livers.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • CHICAGO COLLEGE OF PERFORMING ARTS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Dale Clevenger, conductor, with tubaist Gene Pokorny in a free concert (Stevens, Borodin, Kodaly).

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • SYMPHONY OF OAK PARK AND RIVER FOREST Jay Friedman, conductor, with tubaist Gene Pokorny and the Momenta Performing Arts Company in a family concert (Kleinsinger, Mussorgsky).

    Chicago Reader 2010

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