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Because they are not small.

That is all.

More core.

"Big boned"?

High-fructose corn syrup?

They haven’t smoked enough to get small...

Because their size is proportional to the wavelength of the sound they are designed to produce?

(Consults periodic table.) Now if my tuba were filled with Argon or Xenon...

Xenon... The proverbial lead balloon.

bort wrote:Xenon... The proverbial lead balloon.

Obviously i have not read enough proverbs.

Must remedy this.

Aye.

The Proverbs of Xenon, right after the Psalms of Heracles on your local tv.

Another thing i am not up on is pop cultures...

And between them, i may yet figure out what makes a tuba large...

bloke wrote: yeah... The one to which he refers is about a somewhat mannish-yet-sexy mythical woman who played an overpriced Yamaha replica of an ancient instrument...

...or something like that...(??)

Not sure what she's doing with it, there. "Don't put that in your mouth - you don't know where it's been!"

Because size matters.

Because.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeH-vLMfYYw

I suppose that the answer lies in how well one is able to use it ...
https://youtu.be/hXQENMn6GYI

I had to buy big tuba because I need to compensate. So in fact my Bb Kaiser is compensating.

So our girth looks smaller in comparison to the instrument

tubapix wrote:So our girth looks smaller in comparison to the instrument

That's why I stuck with tuba! (and it works!)

Stryk wrote:I like big BATS, I cannot lie....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ImZTwYwCug

Wrong clip. Try this one- the one with the tuba:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w59e20ijOpE" target="_blank

A little-known fact is that the very first large tuba created a standard for all that came thereafter. That huge tuba was the "Ulence" with five valves. The BB flatUlence was a gas to play, particularly blastissimo.

Ace

Corralary question...

Why are other instruments (by and large) small?