“Without it, folk music would be pretty empty’: musicians explain what makes the tuba so special. The tuba was named instrument of the year by the state music councils.

“It's no longer a laughing matter, but rather a crying one,” says Oberhaching Mayor Stefan Schelle. ‘You can’t say out loud that the trombones were so far ahead of us,’ says Tobi Geschwendner from Feldkirchner.