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The Wagner tuba is a narrow-bore tuba with a French-horn mouthpiece. Tubas appeared first in Berlin in the 1820s, soon after the invention of the valve. They were soon accepted into the band and orchestra, displacing the serpent, ophicleide, and other such instruments of poorer tone quality and intonation.
Many believed that C. G. Conn made the Sousaphone in 1898. However, J. W. Peter made it in 1893, where it was displayed at the industrial exhibit in Philadelphia that same year. The Tuba. Patented in 1835 by Prussian bandmaster Wilhelm Wieprecht and German instrument-builder Johann Gottfried Moritz.