Many people seem to think that jazz is moody music played with brass instruments.
The event concludes with more than 1, 000 people playing brass instruments, ringing large bells and sounding cow horns.
The TUBA is the biggest, heaviest, widest, and lowest-pitched of the brass instruments, the true bass of the family.
In the late 1890s, syncopation joined with soulful melodies, upbeat dance tunes united with the sultry sound of brass instruments, and jazz began to emerge.
Brass instruments are wind instruments, and although they may be coiled or bent into different shapes, all brass instruments consist essentially of a very long metal tube.
Although the chamber music repertoire for brass instruments in combination with other types of instruments is not extensive, there is a large and very interesting repertoire of music for brass quintet.
Developed at Wagner's request at a time when the technical capabilities of modern brass instruments were being expanded, it enabled him to fill a gap in tone color between the mellow lyricism of the horns and the penetrating brilliance of the trombones.
WSJ: It Takes Brass to Play the Wagner Tuba | By Barbara Jepson | The Ring of the Nibelung
Many French horns, for example, are made of nickel silver, an alloy of copper, zinc, and nickel (it's silver in name and color only), and some are made of nickel bronze, an alloy of copper, tin, and nickel. (Brass itself is an alloy of copper and zinc.) Many brass instruments are silver-plated (sterling silver on brass), and some are gold-plated.
"I wish you success, " he told the French as a Malian brass band, their instruments poorly tuned, worked their way through a marching chorale.
Brass specialist Michael Rath said restoring the instruments in his shop was the highlight of his career.
Another satisfying aspect of Wagner's scoring for brass is the imagination with which he employs these instruments.
WSJ: It Takes Brass to Play the Wagner Tuba | By Barbara Jepson | The Ring of the Nibelung
As Taps approached, they raised their instruments and played, echoing Taps down the long, long brass line that stretched over hill and dale, from village to town, while motorists slowed, stopped and stood.
Provenance and rarity also explain Sotheby's high estimates for the ten scientific instruments in the sale, such as a 21-inch brass telescope made circa 1800 by Jesse Ramsden , instrument-maker to King George III.
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