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Definition of Saxtuba
1. n. A powerful instrument of brass, curved somewhat like the Roman buccina, or tuba.
Definition of Saxtuba
1. a bass saxhorn [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Saxtuba
Literary usage of Saxtuba
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American History and Encyclopedia of Music by Janet M. Green, Josephine Thrall (1908)
"Sax greatly improved brass wind instruments which had formerly been furnished
with finger holes and keys like a flute, by adopting valves to them, saxtuba ..."
2. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1910)
"... saxtuba, etc., ignoring the fact that valve-trumpets, valve-horns and various
other forms of valve-brass instruments were known, although not in general ..."
3. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"Referring to wind instruments: spec. saxhorn, althorn, saxophone, saxtuba, bugle,
conch, cornet, cornet-à-pistons (French), krummhorn, etc. ..."
4. The Musiclover's Handbook: Containing (1) a Pronouncing Dictionary of by John Herbert Clifford (1911)
"Brass instrument resembling the saxhorn, but differing in tone quality from having
a narrower tube. saxtuba. The bass saxhorn. ..."
5. Adams' New Musical Dictionary of Fifteen Thousand Technical Words, Phrases by John Stowell Adams (1865)
"saxtuba. A brass instrument curved somewhat like the Koman buccina, of great
sonorousness, with л mouth-piece, and mechanism of three cylinders. Sbalzo. ..."
6. The Musiclover's Handbook: A Pronouncing Dictionary of Musical Terms by John Herbert Clifford (1911)
"Brass instrument resembling the saxhorn, but differing in tone quality from having
a narrower tube. saxtuba. The bass saxhorn. ..."
7. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) by George Grove, John Alexander Fuller-Maitland (1889)
"... Sax- tromba, saxtuba, etc., ignoring the fact that valve-trumpets, valve-horns
and various other forms of ..."
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