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World’s largest tuba (Big Carl) has an estimated weight of ≈45.4 kilograms. It ranks #18 of 37 in the Instruments category.
Source excerpt: This tuba is the largest in the world. Or, as Carl Fischer Music puts it, “what some believe to be the world’s largest tuba.” It was built in 1900 and is rather huge, as one might anticipate.
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Big Carl is approximately 8 feet tall, has 60 feet of tubing, weighs around 100 pounds, and pitches at a subcontrabass BBBb.
| Kilograms | 45.4 kilograms |
| Pounds | 100 pounds |
| Metric tonnes | 0.045 tonnes |
| Grams | 45,359 grams |
| Ounces | 1,600 ounces |
| Stones | 7.14 stones |
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World’s largest tuba (Big Carl) typically weighs about ≈45.4 kilograms, within a recorded range of 45.4 kilograms.
It ranks #18 of 37 entries in Instruments, heavier than 31% of items in the dataset.
The data comes from 1 source articles on weightofstuff.com, most recently updated on 2024-05-17.
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