Brass instruments are also called labrosones, literally meaning " lip-vibrated instruments ".

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.

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Brass instruments in the Renaissance were traditionally played by professionals.

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Category: Brass instruments

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* the types of reeds that are used Steel ; Brass or nickel silver tongued, brass or aluminium framed traditional reeds or Accordion plate reed instruments ;

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Category: Brass instruments

Category: Brass instruments

Brass instruments — such as the French valved cornet and keyed German trumpet — eventually inherited a counter-voice role.

He has sung with The Watersons since 1972, was twice a member of the UK electric folk group Steeleye Span, was a member of the Albion Country Band 1973 line-up, with members from the Fairport Convention family and John Kirkpatrick, that recorded the Battle of the Field album, and was part of the innovative Brass Monkey ensemble, which mixed a range of brass instruments with Carthy's guitar and mandolin and John Kirkpatrick's accordion, melodeon and concertina.

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Category: Brass instruments

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* Brass instruments, such as baritone horn

The 1999 addition of the Joe & Joella Utley ( Spartanburg, South Carolina ) Collection and the establishment of the Utley Institute for Brass Studies makes the NMM the preeminent center for studying the history of brass instruments.

:* Brass instruments ( trumpet, horn, trombone, ...)

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| description = Brass band arrangement of the Hunters ' Chorus from The Lily of Killarney using period instruments.

Brass wind instruments: sankeri

Brass bands were a response to the process of industrialisation, which produced a large working class population, technological advancements, including more efficient piston valve instruments, which were easier to play and more accurate, and mass production that could quickly produce and distribute the instruments.

The MIT class ring, commonly referred to as " The Brass Rat ," when cast in Celestrium ( also known as jeweler's steel ) is often referred to as " The Stainless Steel Rat " in reference to The Stainless Steel Rat series.

Kevan Jones has many links with local community, such as when he presented certificates to school children from the Ouston and Pelton Brass Band for successfully completing their exams.

Brass bands probably reached their peak of popularity in the early decades of the twentieth century, when, it has been estimated, there were over 20, 000 brass band instrumentalists in the country.

Further problems arose in 2001 when he was one of several famous faces duped into appearing on the Channel Four Brass Eye TV programme ; this was the notorious ' Paedogeddon ' spoof episode, where he agreed to read out a fairly ridiculous statement.

The earliest precursor to Pioneer Day celebrations in Utah occurred on July 24, 1849, when the Nauvoo Brass Band led a commemoration of the second anniversary of the Latter-day Saints entering the Salt Lake Valley.

The Mullingar Confraternity Band remained under the auspices of the Confraternity until the 1940s when it was handed over to a committee who continued under the title of Mullingar Brass and Reed Band.

Eric Meagher became Colt Cobra in 1993 ( now with Bigfoot 8's chassis ) when Gene drove Bigfoot No. 10 to second place behind Andy Brass in Bigfoot # 11.

* Brass Ceiling – In the traditionally male-dominated fields of law enforcement and military service, some people use the term " brass ceiling " to describe the difficulty women have when they try to rise up in the ranks.

It was additionally popularized when Pelican Films ( 292 Madison Avenue, New York, New York ) did a series of commercials using Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass who performed the song " The Teaberry Shuffle " ( originally a Tijuana Brass tune titled " Mexican Shuffle ").

They are also noted for providing " Crash " ( a big-beat cover version of Brass Incorporated's At the Sign of the Swinging Cymbal, perhaps best known as the theme song of BBC Radio 1's Pick of the Pops ) as the theme tune to Radio 1's ' Official Chart Show ' between 1998 and 2002, when Mark Goodier was the host.

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.

He also appeared on the cult series Brass Eye when he read an appeal against the fictitious drug, cake.

* The Conn Loyalist-About Conn Brass Instruments from the days when the C. G.

The group was started when Raines and Mercurio, childhood friends from the Washington D. C. area, moved to New Orleans together to attend college at Tulane and Loyola Universities, and became enamored of the local funk scene, populated by such legendary acts as The Meters and Dirty Dozen Brass Band and inspired by local legends such as Professor Longhair.

The Youngblood Brass Band is a brass band from Oregon, Wisconsin, United States that was started by students at Oregon High School in 1995 when they were known as the One Lard Biskit Brass Band with the name changed to the current name in 1998.

He has also expressed distaste for carrying a firearm when in the field, a tendency that has brought several scoldings from co-worker Jim Brass.

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.

In a show broadcast on 12 February 1997, Beckwith became a victim of TV satirist Chris Morris, when she appeared in spoof documentary series Brass Eye on Channel 4.

Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc and, when it was first developed, methods for producing metallic zinc were unknown.

Brass production was introduced to England in 1587 when several members of the Company of Mineral and Battery Works obtained a licence from the company ( within whose monopoly it was ) to build a brass works at Isleworth.

Showing as an example of how much he trusts the team, Brass has stated that he would want Gil Grissom's CSI team to investigate his murder ; he gave Grissom power of attorney rights should anything happen to him, which proved useful when Grissom chose to go ahead with his risky but life-saving surgery when he was shot.