brass instrument

How To Use brass instrument In A Sentence

• This lot plays brass instruments and would keel over in a light breeze. Times, Sunday Times
• He began playing brass instruments, before settling on the saxophone, initially playing a locally made bamboo instrument. Times, Sunday Times
• This lot plays brass instruments and would keel over in a light breeze. Times, Sunday Times
• Either to play (both solo) the oboe, or some new brass instrument that looks like a fugle horn, but is written in alto clef and sounds like an oboe. Yanxious Diary Entry
• The later introduction of valves extended the versatility of brass instruments to cover the full chromatic scale.
• Were you ever a trumpeter or other brass instrument player?
• The rise of the brass band in England coincided with the development of valved brass instruments, particularly the cornet, allowing a wider chromatic range.
• A nagging thought, yes; but the cultural tremors seem much less than those that occurred when, say, European performance practice experienced the technological shift to valved brass instruments — the boom boxes of their times. Aboriginal Painting, Gift and Cost
• Horns would generally remain in the harmonic underlay, and trumpets be used for moments of brightness and assertiveness: brass instruments at this date, without keys, were restricted to rather few notes.
• Wind instruments are tuned by adjustment to the length of tubing, using the tuning-slide on a brass instrument, the staple of the reed on an oboe, or the movable top joint of a flute, etc.