Musical instrument-making would be unthinkable without welded pipe ＆ tube. The tuba illustrates the connection particularly well: the name of this brass

instrument is nothing other than the Latin word for tube. Other brass and pipe instruments also take the tube form. The reed

used in a variety of wind instruments such as the clarinet, saxophone, bassoon or oboe is a flexible piece of cane which is

fixed into the mouthpiece of the instrument or acts as a mouthpiece itself. Organ pipes also rely on the tube shape to create

their sound. They are made of lead and tin, zinc or copper and are still crafted today according to a centuries-old

Tradition.