Sousaphone

Rarity: Uncommon

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Invention

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Arts and letters

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What Wikipedia says

The sousaphone ( SOO-zə-fohn) is a brass musical instrument in the tuba family. It was first created around 1893 by J. W. Pepper as a modification of the helicon, at the direction of American bandleader John Philip Sousa, after whom the instrument was named.

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