brass instrument
Americannoun
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brass instruments
plural
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Etymology
Origin of brass instrument
First recorded in 1850–55
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From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2024
He plans to continue with the brass instrument through college.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 23, 2022
More often than not, those first few years of the series presented the kind of music built on guitar, piano, violin, brass instrument or some combination.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2021
Playing any brass instrument nonstop for this long is physically taxing; what Mr. Evans did seemed outright dangerous.
From New York Times ● Nov. 6, 2015
Figure 4.42: These harmonic series are for a brass instrument that has a 11C11 fundamental when no valves are being used — for example, a C trumpet.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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