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  • noun Someone who plays the tuba

Etymologies

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tuba + -ist

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Examples

  • "They look after their regulars very well – that's the secret," said Martin Knowles, a tubist from the English National Opera, sipping a pint of Darkstar Hophead with colleagues under the whir of a fan.

    Pub of the year award goes to a London local for first time 2011

  • Plus, if it's one thing a tubist loves, it's attention.

    The Unbearable Lowness of Brass 1 Dinosaur 2008

  • A pianist and tubist by training, Mr. Benjamin discovered his calling as an 8-year-old in the 1970s: Seeking amusement while visiting his grandparents 'New Jersey home, he wandered out to the garage, where he discovered their 1917 Victrola.

    Benjamin's Ragtime Band 2008

  • The Salt Lake TribuneUpdated: 04/02/2010 12: 11: 58 PM MDT Have tuba, will Chicago Symphony Orchestra and former principal tubist of the

    WN.com - Articles related to World Trade Center (PG-13) 2010

  • The Salt Lake TribuneUpdated: 04/02/2010 12: 11: 58 PM MDT Have tuba, will Chicago Symphony Orchestra and former principal tubist of the

    WN.com - Articles related to World Trade Center (PG-13) 2010

  • SYMBIOSISDUO - Dr. Stacy Baker, tubist and professor of music at Morehead State University, and Gail Robertson, euphoniumist and instructor of music at the University of Central Florida

    Morehead State University - News 2010

  • Brass quintets proliferated, a boon for tuba players, because brass players on university faculties needed a tubist colleague to form a group.

    NYT > Home Page By DANIEL J. WAKIN 2010

  • WHEN the tubist Charles Daellenbach and four compatriots formed the

    NYT > Home Page By PHILLIP LUTZ 2010

  • Baadsvik is generally recognized as the greatest tuba player in the world, a player who stands a head taller (figuratively and literally) than any other tubist around.

    DCist 2009

  • The event was founded in 1974 by tubist Harvey Phillips in honor of another famous tubist who was born on Christmas Day in 1902.

    WCAX - Local News 2009

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