What to do when someone calls your sousaphone a tuba? (poll)

[Donn]

By the way - a point that we could miss in a text medium - a sousaphone may correctly be called a tuba pronounced "too buh" - but I think most would agree, a sousaphone may not be correctly called a "tyoo buh."

[Steve Oberheu]

I actually have a good story about just that question....

Leaving the bar after a late-night gig, I was walking down the street around 2am and some drunk bystander from about 50 ft. away starts yelling at me, "Hey Tuba....Tuba maaaaan.....TUUUUUBAAAAAAAA..."

As I kept walking away without turning around, as is my custom, some other drunken bystander yells at the first one...

"IT'S A SOUSAPHONE....GET IT RIGHT, ****OLE!!!"

And I grinned....and kept walking......

[Mark]

I have, on more than one occasion, been asked after a concert, "What is that big instrument you were playing?". When I responded "It's a tuba", I was told quite confidently by the questioner that it was not a tuba because tubas are carried on the shoulder and wrap around the player's body.

[Kevin Elliott]

My one-year old nephew is fascinated by tubas. My sister-in-law is starting to get annoyed by this but I find it amusing and evidence of my nephew's strong character. I've played my 186 for him and my King sousaphone but as far as he's concerned, they're both tubas.

Maybe when he's older I'll straighten him out...

[jimmilo]

Invite them to Tuba Christmas.

[Mark]

I have, on more than one occasion, been asked after a concert, "What is that big instrument you were playing?". When I responded "It's a tuba", I was told quite confidently by the questioner that it was not a tuba because tubas are carried on the shoulder and wrap around the player's body.

You thanked them, didn't you...??

They bought tickets. Yes, I thanked them.

[tubasaz]

I just laugh a bit and then say like "I feel that this is like a big French Horn, isn't this ?". And show the sousa more closely putting the bell down and backwards like a Horn.
And usually more info is asked. People seem always to be so interested about my fancy sousa !

[Teubonium]

Standing in the lobby after a concert, a concert-goer asked me "What is the difference between a bass horn and a tuba?"

Another concert-goer quickly offered a definition. "A bass horn has the bell facing forward while a tuba has an upright bell."

[Greenbenches]

And submarines are ships, even if we call them boats. But all ships are not submarines. The difference is that all ships can dive, only submarines can resurface. I never called my sub a ship.
I'll stay with "sousaphone, it's a type of tuba".