大型黄铜吹管乐器,命名来自美国 20 世纪初乐队指挥和作曲家 Philip Sousa,-phone,声音, 乐器。因该乐器最初为该乐队打造而得名。
英文词源
sousaphone (n.)
1903, named for U.S. bandleader and composer John Philip Sousa (1854-1932).
The first sousaphone was made by C.G. Conn in 1899 expressly for Sousa's band and its bell opened directly upward. The present bell-front type was first made in 1908. ["International Cyclopedia of Music," 1939]