He was a short, round-bellied man with a high head upon which stood quill-like hair; when he smiled, his little lunar eyes closed completely, and his vast mouth opened-a trap filled with white blocks of polished bone; when he laughed, it sounded like a snorting tuba....
"Melomaniacs"
James Huneker
The seeds of the species J. multifida, L., also called tuba in Tag.
"The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines"
T. H. Pardo de Tavera
Chopin's obsequies took place at the Madeleine Church, and Lablache sang on this occasion the same passage, the "tuba Mirum" of Mozart's Requiem Mass, which he had sung at the funeral of Beethoven in 1827; while the other solos were given by Mme.
"The Great German Composers"
George T. Ferris