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Tuba, an Uncommon card
The tuba is a large brass instrument in the bass-to-contrabass range.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 83
- DEF
- 99
- Power
- 182
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 140,000
Ranked #680 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Tuba quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Tuba card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The tuba usually has three or four ______, although some models have five or six.
Answer
valves. The tuba usually has three or four valves, although some models have five or six. From the Tuba article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
John Wesley. John Wesley 380,000 · Sergei Prokofiev 260,000 · Tuba 140,000 · Iranian architecture 36,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- It is a member of the valved bugles, a large and diverse family of instruments characterized by their wide conical bore and use of valves to alter pitch.
- The tuba usually has three or four valves, although some models have five or six.
- Descending from the serpent and ophicleide, the tuba was invented in Prussia by Wilhelm Friedrich Wieprecht and Johann Gottfried Moritz and patented in 1835 as the Baß-Tuba, pitched in 12-foot F. Its five valves provided a fully chromatic contrabass instrument with a deep, full contrabass timbre.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Tuba article was read about 140,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 83 and blocks with 99: each hit it takes is cut by 40 %.
How to get Tuba
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Tuba (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Yamaha Corporation, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.