Labels:bulletin board | hakham | vegetarianism OCR: FACTS BOX NAME: WAGNER TUBA FAMILY: Brass BRASS PITCH RANGE: About three octaves MA TERIAL : Brass COMPLETE RANGE SIZE: 31 in 78 cm) high and 13 in (33 cm wide ORIGINS: The German composer Richard 1813 wanted an instrument with a sound between hom and trom bone. In 1851 Moritz of Berlin built the first set t of Wagner tubas for "The Ring Cycle. After this other com posers such as Strauss wrote for the Wagner tuba. CLASSIFICATION: Aerophone: an instrument that produces its sound by the vibration nf a column nf DID YOU KNOW? Although strictly tuba this instrument alway played bv horn player in the orchestra instr vibr ation