Brass is an alloy made from copper and zinc.

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 is a substitutional alloy.

Brass scrap is collected and transported to the foundry where it is melted and recast into billets.

Brass is susceptible to stress corrosion cracking, especially from ammonia or substances containing or releasing ammonia.

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.

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 is lower-expansion than aluminium, but aluminium sextants are lighter and less tiring to use.

Brass, which is an alloy of copper and zinc, has been used since at least the 10th century BC.

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.

Drogheda has a number of brass bands and is home to the Drogheda Brass Band, National Brass Band Champions of Ireland 2007 – 12, and the Lourdes Brass Band

Balkan Brass, or " truba " ( trumpet ) is a popular genre that originated during the First Serbian Uprising ( 1804 – 1813 ) with military marching bands that transposed Serbian folk music.

Brass produced using calamine is called calamine brass.

Brass is a commonly used case material.

This is especially apparent in his Concert Music for Strings and Brass.

Brass music is often heard together with a ( traveling ) carillon.

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.

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.

It has traditionally been a mining town with several large mining pits situated in and around the area, with the closest being Ireland Pit ( Ireland Colliery Brass Band is named after this colliery ).

Brass made during the early Roman period seems to have varied between 20 % to 28 % wt zinc.

In the following years, she made several moderately successful American films, including Incognito ( 1997 ); U. S. Marshals ( 1998 ), starring opposite Wesley Snipes and Tommy Lee Jones ; The Big Brass Ring ( 1999 ), with William Hurt ; and the entertaining History Is Made at Night ( 1999 ), with Bill Pullman and Bruno Kirby.

In lighter vein, West starred as patriarch Bradley Hardacre in Granada TV's satirical Northern super-soap Brass over three seasons ( 1982 – 1990 ), and made a memorable appearance as Professor Furie in A Very Peculiar Practice in 1986.

* Audio recordings made by each republic's best national choir and orchestra in the 1970s-1980s ; also instrumental versions by the Brass Band of the USSR Ministry of Defence from the 1968 Soviet LP.

Black Thought made an appearance in the film Love Rome as Tariq Trotter, and Questlove currently appears in the recent documentary movie about TBC Brass Band called From the Mouthpiece on Back, which lists The Roots as one of the executive producers of the movie.

The Maronites made up the bulk of the Maradite army, the so-called " Brass Wall " that shielded Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire from Arab expansion.

* Ted Maul ( Chris Morris )-The roving reporter who later appears in Brass Eye made his first appearance in The Day Today as a grey-haired, moustachioed veteran who speaks in an overblown, aggressive way.

Very little is known about the band's formative years except that reference is made in a press article of August 1890 to the formation of a ' Brass and Reed Band ' from the existing town band which had, at that time, been running for at least ten years.

The Canadian Brass ( known for their unique performance attire of formal black suits with white running shoes ) made its American debut at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC in 1975.

In 1976 the famous Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band recorded an arrangement of the Moss song made by their Musical Director Derek Broadbent.

In 1997, Edmonds was involved in an episode of the Chris Morris spoof documentary series Brass Eye, in which he unwittingly pledged his allegiance on camera to a campaign to rid the country of a new killer drug, the entirely fictitious ' cake ', which apparently made 10 seconds appear as a few hours to a user.

He has, however, made several guest appearances on television, though this has often been as the unsuspecting butt of the joke on satirical comedy shows, such as the Chris Morris show, Brass Eye.

Her final two films Noose and Brass Monkey were both made in Great Britain.

Recordings have been made by the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble and similar groups.

Brass knuckles made of hardened plastic, rather than metal, have been marketed as " undetectable by airport metal detectors.

Brass chandeliers were made for the newly invented gas lighting and a " bats wing " burner patented.

* " Brass ", the metallic body of a cartridge case, usually made of brass

The Siggiewi Festival Brass Band was the first band established in Malta which plays only instruments made of brass.

That's because of the City of Brass, a marvelous town made of brass and magically protected against the abrasive nature of the plane.

" A friend of the family made Rick a makeshift drum kit out of a biscuit tin, and at the age of 12 he joined the British Railways Staff Association Brass and Silver Jubilee Band as a snare drummer .< ref name =" Melhuish ">

This activity arose from the activity of the Frost brothers ( Joseph and Isaac ) who having made their fortune in the Derby Brass Foundry business proceeded to spend significant sums on publicising their sect once the family moved to London.

Ciara made a guest appearance on Nelly's single " Stepped On My J ' z " from his album Brass Knuckles.

Recording artists who employed such techniques include Herb Alpert ( who made many of his Tijuana Brass recordings playing multiple horn parts, overdubbed and grouped together on tape ), Harry Nilsson and The Carpenters ( who did similar with their voices, building what sounded like a large chorus ), future Electric Light Orchestra leader and producer Jeff Lynne ( who overlaid guitar parts on a home machine, before graduating to studio work ), and The Beatles ( who frequently used pairs of four-track recorders linked together ).