While the brass instruments remained valveless until 1814, a type of keyed bugle named ophicleide, was used. Ophicleide was a brass wind musical instrument of relatively wide conical bore, that was invented in 1817 by Jean-Hilaire Asté of Paris. With the intention to make instruments fully chromatic, Heinrich Stoelzel, a member of the band of the Prince of Pless, invented a valve which he applied to the horn by July of 1814. This device enabled the player, in all simplicity, to produce all notes from the lowest to the highest with the same strength, fullness, and purity, the majority of which were hitherto only obtainable by stopping the hand into the bell, which produced a dull and unclear sound.

Following the invention of the valve, the tuba was finally patented

The popularity of tuba spread from that time and on with a help of few composers and performers who gave the sense of tuba playing to public. One of the people who not only contributed to the physical variation of tuba, but also by new compositions for it, was Richard Wagner(1813-1883). Living in Lipzig, and constantly moving around the world, he studied at different schools and worked with various people that inspired and co-operated with him on his new works and operas. At the age of 15, this youngster mastermind wrote a play and a year later he composed his first operas. His fame came to him through one of his first operas called the “Flying Dutchman”. His other world-famous operas were: "Tristan und Isolde", Der Ring des Nibelungen", etc. Wagner did more than any other composer to change music, and indeed to change art and thinking about it. His life and his music arouse passions like no other composer's. His works are hated as much as they are worshipped; but no-one denies their greatness.

“Earl Fuller’s Famous Jazz Band” was one of the first Dixieland bands ever existing. During the 1917, the year that the Dixieland was officially instituted as a type of jazz, Earl Fuller formed a band with five through nine players, where one of them was a tuba player named

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