Marietta High School graduate Max Cogswell, right, plays the sousaphone in The Ohio State University’s marching band. Cogswell has been chosen to dot the i when the band spells out the word Ohio ...
Henderson listens and reports back that the timbre of the 30-hertz tone it emits is “a splendid noise,” falling a little lower than the lowest note of a piano: “To my ears, there’s a dash of French ...
Their son Ben Jaffe, a sousaphone player who essentially grew up at the hall, is now its creative director and proprietor. He and his team have built Preservation Hall into a global brand ...