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[Photograph 2012.201.B0363.0253]

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "It takes a big man to supply the wind power for those low bass notes. In this case it's Virgil Ester, tubist."

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Source context

Visible Gateway description identifies Virgil Ester and the role tubist. Creation information: Petrauskas, Kazimir; February 19, 1951. Source: . Collection: Oklahoma Publishing Company Photography Collection.

Oklahoma connection

Oklahoma-linked newspaper caption directly identifies Virgil Ester as a tubist.

People, groups, or instruments recorded

tubist

Reading this source

This is a narrow role-gap capture, not a full biography or identity resolution. Supporting educator, orchestra-section, and unspecified-musician contexts do not independently establish an instrument-playing member. Exact Oklahoma origin, duplicate relationships, and republication rights require separate review. Per-page local hashes are recorded in the Markdown record.

Sources

  1. gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc202463/