National Brass Band

National Brass Band Championships 2017

The brass band equivalent of the football league, the National Brass Band Championships sees over 600 bands from across the country compete in 8 regional heats; culminating in 2 finals...

Arsenal Drum and Bugle Corps win Gold and Best of Show!

Arsenal Drum and Bugle Corps win Gold and Best of Show!

Often at Wessex Tubas, we’re invited to work with a marching band or brass band; our range of instruments able to equip almost an entire band. Recently, we had the pleasure of working...

The benefits of cleaning your Euphonium

Wessex European tour

Wessex European tour

We’re delighted to be part of Italian Brass Week, 9th - 16th July, where we’ll be exhibiting some of our finest brass instruments available to the market. Exhibiting at shows...

A Hollywood hit at NAMM

A Hollywood hit at NAMM

A specialist trade show taking place just twice a year, NAMM gives musicians and music merchants across the world the opportunity to come together to share their knowledge & experience...

Italian Brass Week 2017

Italian Brass Week 2017

Wessex Tubas will be Exhibiting 13th and 14th July. Please visit us!

Celebrating 6 years of high quality brass instruments

Celebrating 6 years of high quality brass instruments

It seems incredible that a whole 6 years has passed since Wessex Tubas started trading; selling our very first tuba to a gentleman in Ireland with whom the founder of Wessex, Jonathan...

How to clean your Euphonium

How to clean your Euphonium

Being a busy brass musician - touring the world, playing in bands, or simply playing for pleasure in your spare time - it can often be all too easy to...

Development of an Ergonomic Euphonium

Development of an Ergonomic Euphonium

Where traditional euphoniums played in British brass bands have three valves on the top, and a fourth on the side, I have always found these difficult to play for longer periods...

Ian Foster tries the prototype Wessex OTS Saxhorn

Ian Foster tries the prototype Wessex OTS Saxhorn

Yesterday Wessex Professional Artiste, Ian Foster visited Wessex Tubas UK store to buy a Wessex SP28 Eb sousaphone to use for some gigs he has coming up with the Royal Shakespeare...