brass instrument

noun

a musical wind instrument of brass or other metal with a cup-shaped mouthpiece, as the trombone, tuba, French horn, trumpet, or cornet.

First recorded in 1850–55

While brass instruments are easy to evaluate, because all air goes straight from the mouthpiece to the bell, woodwinds get complicated.

Trumpets, flutes and other woodwind and brass instruments relocated from the center to the fringes, closest to the onstage air vents.

The vexatious thing in speaking of her is, that she compels to the use of the rhetorician's brass instrument.

No asking your way of the sun, when you are lost, with a little brass instrument and a morsel of pencil and paper.

The original corno basso was a brass instrument of narrow bore with the pistons set horizontally.

A faint note or two from some brass instrument was carried to them by the wind.

Others believe the vocal cords act as the lips do in playing a brass instrument.

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