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Why would a tuba have a lower pitch than a trumpet. Be sure to discuss air molecules in your answer!

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The tuba is the biggest, and among the newest, of all the brass instruments. Tuba players create the low-pitched sound by making a kind of "buzz" with their breath against the mouthpiece and pressing the tuba's valves to form notes.

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in other words it because less air molecules are abloe to go through the mouth peiece of the tuba

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