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Performer: James Saliers This passage from Wagner's Prelude to "Die Meistersinger" exhibits the singing high range of the tuba, including music literature's most recognized tuba trill. Note the color change created by articulation from non-legato to molto legato. Notice also that breaths need to be taken in spite of the composer's seeming indifference to that need.

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