During the process RAI employed Brass Extrusion Labs Ltd. ( BELL ) of Bensenville, Illinois, to make the. 338 / 416 or 8. 58 × 71mm cartridge cases, Hornady produced bullets, and RAI built a sniper rifle under contract for the U. S. Navy.

Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc ; the proportions of zinc and copper can be varied to create a range of brasses with varying properties.

Brass has a number of qualities that make it almost ideal for a cartridge, including low friction against steel, making it easier to extract, and the ease with which casings can be manufactured.

" The City of Brass " and " The Ebony Horse " can be considered early examples of proto-science fiction.

Brass instruments, when played with no valves engaged ( or, for trombones, with the slide all the way in ), play a series of notes that form the overtone series based on some fundamental pitch, e. g., the B trumpet, when played with no valves engaged, can play the overtones based on B.

He is often credited with being instrumental in the development of jazz music as his Reliance Brass Band was the first to fuse European, African and Latin music together, and the earliest jazz musicians can be traced back to playing within the Reliance Brass Band or being influenced from those who had.

Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc and bronze usually refers to copper-tin alloys, but can refer to any alloy of copper such as aluminium bronze.

" The City of Brass " and " The Ebony Horse " can be considered early examples of proto-science fiction.

" The City of Brass " and " The Ebony Horse " can be considered early examples of proto-science fiction.

" The City of Brass " and " The Ebony Horse " can be considered early examples of proto-science fiction.

The Tudor Guild, a separate non-profit corporation, operates the Tudor Guild Gift Shop ( J ) and Brass Rubbing Center ( O ) where visitors can make rubbings of facsimiles of 55 historic English brasses under expert guidance.

Two members of the Chicago Brass Quintet can arguably be credited with helping plant the seed for today's success of the brass quintet medium: Arnold Jacobs, tubist of the CBQ was teacher to the two founders Daellenbach and Watts of the Canadian Brass, while Renold Schilke, trumpet player in the CBQ and master craftsman, was mentor to the entire group, successfully crafting the first-ever matched set of gold-plated quintet brass instruments.

The wealth of new music for brass quintet can be attributed to the American Brass Quintet with over 100 premieres of new quintet works.

Brass Selector forks wear out ( Jumps out of gear ) although this can also be caused by worn dogs & windows on hubs ( less common )

A variety of substrate materials can be cut with a UV laser source including FR4 and similar resin-based substrates, polyimide, ceramics, PTFE, PET, Aluminum, Brass and Copper.

Brass instruments, on the other hand, can play beyond their designated ranges.

The words “ burst Joy ’ s Grape ” in line 28 lead Daniel Brass to state: The height of the joy, the moment when the world can improve no further, is both the end of joy and the beginning of melancholy.

He can be heard on recordings with the Chesntut Brass Company on the Sony Classical, Naxos, Newport Classic, Polygram, Albany, Musical Heritage Society and Crystal labels.

A film that Gatlif as “ Brass Knuckles ” means, can the show through the filmmaker and his style.

The name Brass Monkey can also refer to the following cocktails:

The South Elmsall Village Brass Band can be traced back to humble beginnings in 1884.

Brass instruments may also be characterised by two generalizations about geometry of the bore, that is, the tubing between the mouthpiece and the flaring of the tubing into the bell.

Attacks on Bryan were frequent and acidic: Life awarded him its " Brass Medal of the Fourth Class ," for having " successfully demonstrated by the alchemy of ignorance hot air may be transmuted into gold, and that the Bible is infallibly inspired except where it differs with him on the question of wine, women, and wealth.

Brass or stainless steel fittings should be used instead.

The Brass Firemen would be the Official USA Band in the Opening Ceremonies for the 1984 Winter Olympic Games.

To celebrate their 20th anniversary as a band, Shellac will return to ATP to curate once more in December 2012-so far choosing Wire, Scrawl, Mission Of Burma, The Ex + Brass Unbound, Red Fang, Shannon Wright, The Membranes, Alix, Bear Claw, Helen Money, Dead Rider, Arcwelder, Neurosis, Mono, Melt Banana, Uzeda, Prinzhorn Dance School, Three Second Kiss, Buke and Gase, Oxbow, Nina Nastasia, Zeni Geva, Bottomless Pit, Pinebender and STNNNG to play alongside them, with more to be confirmed.

In their most controversial move, the pair shot extra scenes of hardcore sexual material which would be used to replace scenes shot by Brass.

Originally, the series was to be called " Tales of the Brass Monkey ," but that was the name of an alcoholic beverage, so the name was changed to Gold Monkey.

Brass is cheap but light and therefore brass barrels tend to be very bulky.

With lineups including Mark Harris, Elwyn Walters, John Brass, Bill Mullins, Russell Fairfax, Johnny Mayes, John Peard, Ron Coote, Ian Schubert and captain Arthur Beetson, the Centenary of Rugby League panel considered the Roosters of 1974 and 1975 to be among the greatest club teams of all time.

" Tijuana Taxi " and " Spanish Flea " would be used in the 1966 Academy Award-winning animated short A Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass Double Feature.

It is also known to be used to refer to authority figures or those in power, particularly by office workers, for instance: " I have to do this, it's an order from the Top Bollocks " ( see also " Top Dog ", " Top Brass " etc.

The Native Brass Band, reportedly the first official band of local musicians, was formed under the direction of Lionel Roberts in 1907, while the Adams Juvenile Band appeared in 1910 and would be inducted into the U. S. Navy when the service took over the administration of the islands from Denmark in 1917.

However, many consider Caligula not to be a true Tinto Brass film since post-production was not handled by Brass.

Brass was produced by the cementation process where copper and zinc ore are heated together until zinc vapor is produced which reacts with the copper.

and Eckstein, K ( 2003 ) " Production of Brass in Antiquity by Direct Reduction " in Craddock, P. T.

Others, like Brass, were republics with small senates, and those at Cross River and Old Calabar were ruled by merchants of the ekpe society.

Brass instruments in the Renaissance were traditionally played by professionals.

The sousaphone is an important fixture of the New Orleans brass band tradition, and is still used in groups such as the Dirty Dozen Brass Band by Kirk Joseph.

* Dropout ( 1970 film ), an Italian film by Tinto Brass starring Vanessa Redgrave.

* Summertime, by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass

A similar performance was recorded for CD by Star of Indiana as part of their Brass Theater series.

* French — Duhamel, Antoine: Pierrot le fou: Four Pieces for Orchestra ( 1965 / 66 ); Françaix, Jean: Pierrot, or The Secrets of the Night ( 1980 ; ballet, libretto by Michel Tournier ; see above under Fiction ); Lancen, Serge: Masquerade: For Brass Quintet and Wind Orchestra ( 1986 ; # 3: " Pierrot "); Naulais, Jérôme: The Moods of Pierrot ( n. d .; flute and piano ).

Brass instrument players may produce vibrato by gently shaking the horn which varies the pressure of the mouthpiece against the lip.

Paxman and his presenting style were also frequently parodied by comedian Chris Morris in the satirical TV series The Day Today and Brass Eye.

The theme tune for the first series was the 1965 hit ' Tijuana Taxi ' performed by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass.

* Miranda ( 1985 film ), a film by Italian director Tinto Brass

In films and TV programmes ( e. g. Brass ) Croydon Airport has occasionally been represented by Barton Airport, near Manchester, as is evident from its distinctive control tower.

" These are the now-classic " Public Enemy / Whipped Cream Mixes ", with Public Enemy's inflammatory raps, " By the Time I Get To Arizona " and " Rebel Without a Pause " overdubbed onto instrumentals by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass.

I tried to see instead of working out of doors, Grand " Excursion " to Plymouth by rail-this afternoon-Wayne Brass Band & Star Spangled-Banners.

* WNPI-TVThe Brass Firemen play a mix of New Orleans style jazz, military, and traditional marching band standards, affectionately referred to by the band members as, " Dixieland jazz, North Country style.

The town is also home to the Yorkshire Co-op Brass band, formed in 1999 by merger of the Jayess ' 87 and Jayess Queensbury bands.

Saltford Lock and weir are overlooked by the remains of the Kelston Brass Mill, which was working until 1925.