Some common examples are the high electrical conductivity of pure copper, the excellent deep drawing qualities of cartridge case brass, the low-friction properties of bearing bronze, the resonant qualities of bell bronze, and the resistance to corrosion by sea water of several bronze alloys.

The horn, commonly known as the French horn, is a brass instrument made of about of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell.

In 1999 Crowe paid A $ 42, 000 at auction for the brass bell used to open the inaugural rugby league match in Australia in 1908 at a fund-raiser to assist Souths ' legal battle for re-inclusion in the League.

The Thomas J. Nichol calliopes featured rolled sheet copper ( as used in roofing ) for the resonant tube ( the bell ) of the whistle, lending a sweeter tone than cast bronze or brass, which were the usual materials for steam whistles of the day.

Composers such as Henry Cowell wrote music which asks for the player to reach inside the piano and pluck the strings directly, or to " bow " them with bow hair wrapped around the strings, or play them by rolling the bell of a brass instrument such as a trombone on the array of strings.

However, current rules in both Drum Corps International and Drum Corps Associates define a bugle as a brass instrument in any key, with 0 to 4 valves, and bell front.

In return Robinson donated a large brass bell to the town.

The opposite end to the blown one is slightly flared, like the bell on a modern brass instrument but not to the same degree.

Iron and brass founders, agricultural implement makers, and church bell frame makers and hangers remained in operation into the 20th century.

The bell is made of brass, in diameter, cast in Vilnius in 1667.

These are: bell bronze, malleable bronze, brass and nickel silver.

A variety of mutes have been used on brass instruments, all of which either squeeze inside the bell of the instrument, or are hung or clipped to the outside of the bell.

To remedy this, a small mute made of brass, with a small branch and tiny brass bell, is substituted for the hand.

* Brian Eno – voices, synthesizers ( Minimoog, EMS Synthi AKS, Yamaha CS-80 ), guitar, synthesized percussion, piano, brass, vibes, metallics, bell

The bell itself is usually made of brass or bronze and often has the ship's name engraved or cast on it.

* con sordina, or con sordine ( plural ): with a mute, or with mutes ; several orchestral instruments can have their tone muted with wood, rubber, metal, or plastic devices ( for string instruments, mutes are clipped to the bridge, and for brass instruments, mutes are inserted in the bell ); compare senza sordina in this list ( which instructs the musicians to remove their mutes ); see also Sordino.

After that, Tama Drums has produced two Lars Ulrich Signature Snare drums, one with a steel shell ( with diamond plate-like finish ) and another made out of bell brass which was once Tama's most expensive snare drum on the regular catalogue.

*** Note: Ulrich uses the standard Lars Ulrich Signature LU1465 snare live on tour ( diamond plate ), while he uses both the LU1465 and LU1465BB ( bell brass ) in the studio, depending on what type of sound he wants.

Outside is a three-ton, brass peace bell.

An official ceremony between Expedition crews took place 10 June, with the ceremonial ringing of the station's brass bell, symbolizing the transfer of command.

The brass bell is still in use on the current Boilermaker Special V.

The brass bell originally installed on Boilermaker Specials I and II was installed on the boiler.

The steam locomotives were very simple, usually made in brass, with a pair of simple oscillating cylinders driving the main wheels.

In live steam models, copper or brass is often used because it is more easily fabricated in smaller size boilers.

* Tools that do not exist, such as a metric adjustable wrench, a brass magnet, a sky hook, a 3 / 4 " steam separator, a key to the oarlocks, a key to the batter's box, 3-foot metre stick, angular striper, shelf-stretcher, board-stretcher, metal stretcher ( in plumbing, a pipe-stretcher ), electric brick, brick bender

To avoid tampering, they were often shrouded in tall brass casings which also vented the steam away from the locomotive crew.

Although showy polished brass covers over safety valves had been a feature of steam locomotives since Stephenson's day, the only railway to maintain this tradition into the era of pop valves was the GWR, with their distinctive tapered brass safety valve bonnets and copper-capped chimneys.

It climaxes on brass and timpani, then losing steam and returning to harmonica calm.

As competition intensified, horse-drawn single narrowboats were replaced by steam and later diesel powered boats towing an unpowered butty, and many of the boatmen's families abandoned their shore homes for a life afloat, to help with boat handling and to reduce accommodation costs – the birth of the legendary " boatman's cabin " with bright white lace, gleaming brass and gaily-painted metalware.

Water power from tributaries of the Avon drove the hammers in the brass batteries, until the development of steam power in the later 18th century.

Also on display within the church is a brass plaque commemorating the work of Richard Trevithick, the pioneer of steam propulsion, who lived, worked and died in the town.

* July 25 – Thieves steal two brass handles and four copper pipes from the Fairy Queen steam locomotive in New Delhi, India.

The Coalbrookdale Company also played an important role in using iron to replace the more expensive brass for cylinders for Thomas Newcomen's steam engines.

The Clark tin whistle is voiced somewhat on an organ-pipe with a flattened tube forming the lip of the fipple mouthpiece and is usually made from rolled tin sheet or brass.

The Generation whistle was introduced in the first half of the 20th century, and also featured a brass tube with a lead fipple plug.

Scouts wore a green blouse with two rows of brass buttons, an orange neckerchief, slouch hat, blacks shorts and a white lanyard that was attached to his scout whistle.

The Tusculum whistle is a 14-cm whistle with six finger holes, made of brass or bronze, found with pottery dating to the 14th and 15th centuries ; it is currently in the collection of the Museum of Scotland.

The brass Ressikan flute resembles, and has a similar sound to, a penny whistle or a tin whistle.

The brass bell from Boilermaker Special I and the brass whistle from Boilermaker Special III were installed on the boiler.

The walls were constructed of red, white and black rock quarried from the moats, and were covered with brass, tin and the precious metal orichalcum, respectively.

The bactericidal properties of brass have been observed for centuries and were confirmed in the laboratory in 1983.

Dioscorides mentioned that zinc minerals were used for both the working and finishing of brass, perhaps suggesting secondary additions.

Disruption in the trade of tin for bronze from Western Europe may have contributed to the increasing popularity of brass in the east and by the 6th – 7th centuries AD over 90 % of copper alloy artefacts from Egypt were made of brass.

These large crucibles were capable of producing c. 20 kg of brass.

Triangular crucibles were then used to melt the brass for casting.

Zinc metal was also becoming more commonplace By 1513 metallic zinc ingots from India and China were arriving in London and pellets of zinc condensed in furnace flues at the Rammelsberg in Germany were exploited for cementation brass making from around 1550.

* Keyed or Fingered brass instruments used holes along the body of the instrument, which were covered by fingers or by finger-operated pads ( keys ) in a similar way to a woodwind instrument.

Early crochet hooks ranged from primitive bent needles in a cork handle, used by poor Irish lace workers, to expensively crafted silver, brass, steel, ivory and bone hooks set into a variety of handles, some of which were better designed to show off a lady's hands than they were to work with thread.

Machine-stamped tags were also made of brass or lead with a hole and usually had ( on one side ) an eagle or shield and such phrases as " War for the Union " or " Liberty, Union, and Equality ".

Many early bassists doubled on both the brass bass and string bass, as the instruments were then often referred to.

Callet attributes this difference in embouchure technique as the reason the great players of the past were able to play at the level of technical virtuosity which they did, although the increased difficulty of contemporary compositions for brass seem to indicate that the level of brass technique achieved by today's performers equals or even exceeds that of most performers from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

" As he Emperor Alexios I knew that the Pisans were skilled in sea warfare and dreaded a battle with them, on the prow of each ship he had a head fixed of a lion or other land-animal, made in brass or iron with the mouth open and then gilded over, so that their mere aspect was terrifying.

Certain adornments were awarded to individual warriors for conspicuous courage in action ; these included a type of heavy brass arm-ring ( ingxotha ) and an intricate necklace composed of interlocking wooden pegs.

) were, however, made of brass.

In Crete, at the city of Dreros, Spyridon Marinatos uncovered an eighth-century post-Minoan hearth house temple in which there were found three unique figures of Apollo, Artemis and Leto made of brass sheeting hammered over a shaped core ( sphyrelata ).

In Burma, the kammavaca, Buddhist manuscripts, were inscribed on brass, copper or ivory sheets, and even on discarded monk robes folded and lacquered.

After many of the people had been bitten by serpents and died, Moses made the brass serpent and mounted it on a pole, and if those who were bitten looked at it, they did not die.

The bands then were brass ( orquestra tipica ), but was followed by smaller groups called charangas.

At one time, nutcrackers were actually made of metals such as brass, and it wasn't until the 1800s in Germany that the popularity of wooden ones began to spread.