sousaphone

English

Man playing a sousaphone.

Etymology

Named after American composer and conductor John Philip Sousa +‎ -phone.

Noun

sousaphone (plural sousaphones)

1. A valved brass instrument with the same length as a tuba, but shaped differently so that the bell is above the head, that the valves are situated directly in front of the musical instruments and a few inches above the waist, and that most of the weight rests on one shoulder.

   Coordinate terms: helicon, tuba

   • 1990, Thomas D. Rossing, The Science of Sound, page 230:

     One version of the large tuba, popular in marching bands, is called a sousaphone in honor of bandsman John Philip Sousa.

Derived terms

• sousaphonist

Translations

brass instrument

• Asturian: sousafón m, sousáfono m
• Catalan: sousàfon m
• Czech: suzafon m
• Dutch: sousafoon (nl) m
• Esperanto: suzafono
• Finnish: sousafoni
• French: soubassophone (fr) m
• German: Sousafon (de) n, Sousaphon (de) n
• Hebrew: סוזאפון m, סוּזָפוֹן (he) m (suzafon)
• Hungarian: szouszafon
• Irish: súsafón m
• Italian: susafono m
• Japanese: スーザフォン (ja) (sūzafon)
• Korean: 수자폰 (sujapon)
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: sousafoon m

• Luxembourgish: Sousaphon m
• Macedonian: сузафон m (suzafon)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sousafon m

  Nynorsk: sousafon m

• Occitan: sousafòn m
• Persian: سوسافون (susâfon)
• Polish: suzaphon m
• Portuguese: sousafone (pt) m
• Russian: сузафо́н m (suzafón)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: су̀зафо̄н m

  Roman: sùzafōn (sh) m

• Spanish: susáfono
• Swedish: sousafon (sv) c
• Thai: ซูซาโฟน (soo-saa-fohn)
• Turkish: suzafon
• Ukrainian: сузафон m (suzafon)
• Vietnamese: kèn sousa

Further reading

• sousaphone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia