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"John Elliott, of London played the sousaphone on stage at the London Palladium in 1983, on the last night of the Palladium's run of the musical "Barnum". He was taught to unicycle by Bill Witter, who played the role of the Ringmaster in the show on Broadway and London, and who had also been a clown with Barnum & Bailey's Circus."



"John writes "It took a great deal of practice to reach the point where I could play and ride simultaneously, as the sousaphone throws the balance completely out. I approached the feat in stages, firstly on the short unicycle with the sousaphone's bell removed, without attempting to play, working my way up to the final stage of playing while riding the giraffe as seen in the picture. Mounting was a serious problem!" Stay tuned below!

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"Andy Ford of the Delux Vaudeville Orchestra performed, once, the baritone horn on a 6-foot giraffe (a tall unicycle)."





And last but not least:

"Steve Rossé is a top tuba player for the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. He used to be (according to an article in the Sydney Morning Herald, 25th February 1998) a professional clown, and performs a party trick of playing Rimsky Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee, while riding a unicycle. " Say it ain't so, Steve!

All of this from: http://www.unicycling.org/btdt/music.htm

The fall semester after clown school, Steve Rosse returned to Arizona State and his spot in the Sun Devil Marching Band. He took posession of one of the new sousaphones the band had just bought. He then showed off his new mad skillz on unicycle that he'd honed in clown school by riding around with his new sousaphone.

The band director, Dr. Robert Fleming, was reported to have shot lightning out of his *** when he saw this. Orange flame burned from his eye sockets as he completely freaked out watching thousands of dollars of new sousaphone being driven around the football field on ONE WHEEL. The speaker cones of the P.A. system were shredded to bits as he screamed gruesome, bloody threats. We laughed for years. It happened before I got to ASU, and we were still talking about it after I gradjeeated.

Steve is the man. He might still have that picture. Yep, there's pictures. If I had it, you'd be looking at it right now.