In the months before the start of the Revolutionary War, John Behrent (also spelled Berent) built the first piano sold commercially in the United States. More than 100 years later — at the behest of ...

The American-made piano and sousaphone got their start in Philly. From there, musical history continues to be made.

A sousaphone player has caused much hilarity in America by playing humorous music alongside a march by the Ku Klux Klan. The march, which took place in Columbia in 2015, was organised to protest the ...

(Soundbite of music) COX: That's Julius Mckee, sousaphone player for The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, and a master of music's lower frequencies. Listen for others who lay claim to the same title as our ...

Fans may rave about the tuba players in the UC Berkeley Marching Band. Technically, though, they’re playing sousaphones — and the Cal Band calls them “basses.” Whatever you call them, though, those ...

Reunited, and it feels so good. That’s the memorable chorus from a late-1970s Peaches and Herb hit. And while the song probably doesn’t translate well on the sousaphone, for Tacoma’s Pat Van Haren, a ...