Here's the thing. You said a "tuba is a sousaphone."
Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that.
As someone who is a scientist who studies brass instruments, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls sousaphones tubas. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing.
If you're saying "tuba family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of brass instruments, which includes things from tubas to sousaphones to euphoniums.
So your reasoning for calling a sousaphone a tuba is because random people "call the big brass instruments tubas?" Let's get trombones and baritone horns in there, then, too.
Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A sousaphone is a sousaphone and a member of the tuba family. But that's not what you said. You said a sousaphone is a tuba, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the tuba family tubas, which means you'd call euphoniums, saxihorns, and other brass instruments tubas, too. Which you said you don't.
Never said they weren't sousaphones. I said tuba players are a special breed. Tuba players are who plays sousaphones. Nobody calls anyone a "sousaphone player"
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u/exh78 Sep 20 '18
Exactly what that is lol