Sousa was instrumental in the design of the sousaphone, a bass one of these with an upright bell
I bought another old upright tuba from Milt Marcus, a tuba collector... [DOC] [TLE] TubeNet  View topic - Sousa's important quote about the Sousaphone [PAR] "From one Sousaphone in use in my band during its earliest days, .... How did the 
upright raincatcher bell morph into that great forward ringing monstrosity?