Certainly there must be a name to attach to that Sousa scholar alluded to above if he exists.robcat2075 wrote:Can you point me to who those individuals are and where their research might be read?Mikelynch wrote:That rumor has been around for years, but there is no support. A Sousa scholar has indicated that the Sousa press machine was quite effective, and if the instrument had been associated with Sousa, it would have been in the press releases. But a review of the press releases has never yielded any suggestion of the large tuba. A former owner also looked for for such connection, but never found any.
The only Sousa scholar I'm familiar with is Paul Bierley and I can't detect that he has ever written on this topic.