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• In tuba
  Wagner tubas are four-valved, small-bored tubas designed in the 19th century for the German composer Richard Wagner for special effects in his four-part music-drama cycle The Ring of the Nibelung. Basically derived from the French horn, they are played by horn players with horn mouthpieces…
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  In wind instrument: The Romantic period
  Also noteworthy are the Wagner tubas, specially built for Richard Wagner’s four-opera cycle, Der Ring des Nibelungen. Narrower in bore than the baritone horn, they are supplied with a funnel-shaped mouthpiece in order to form a tone intermediate between the orchestral horn and the tuba. Built in tenor and…
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