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Brass band   /bræs bænd/   Listen
Brass band

noun
1.
A group of musicians playing only brass and percussion instruments.





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"Brass band" Quotes from Famous Books



... as the vehicles of every description, from the humble costermonger's to the handsome broughams bearing their wealthy owners to their offices for the day; the prettily-dressed children who toddled beside their busy mothers to their early shopping; and, above all, the strains of a brass band which was enlivening the morning hours with its familiar repertoire. Each and all were a revelation of delight to the simple peasant. Straight from the gorse and heather, a woman exceptionally endowed with the instincts of a refined nature, ...
— Garthowen - A Story of a Welsh Homestead • Allen Raine
... a spot-light and a brass band," Cal returned, in much the same tone with which a woman remarks upon a last season's hat on the ...
— Flying U Ranch • B. M. Bower
... than 'cordions an' sech things. Though I 'lows a concertina takes a beatin'. Still, education has got loose on Barnriff, an' I heerd tell as ther's some o' the folks yearnin' fer piannys. I did hear one of our leadin' citizens, Mr. Anthony Smallbones, was about to finance a brass band layout." ...
— The One-Way Trail - A story of the cattle country • Ridgwell Cullum
... played exclusively by masculine lips and lungs. "Blowing" through brass is very characteristic of the advocates of Women's Emancipation; and the next thing we shall hear, perhaps, is that the ladies of the Revolution have organized themselves into a brass band, and taken to serenading ...
— Punchinello, Vol.1, No. 4, April 23, 1870 • Various
... herself, that she did not; that if he had her backache he wouldn't hear a brass band, and that her next walk would ...
— John March, Southerner • George W. Cable


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