Sentence examples for a brass instrument from inspiring English sources

Mr. Bissonnet pulled down a Berlioz favorite, the ophicleide, a brass instrument.

Where Piaf's voice was, indomitably, a brass instrument, Ms. Bitton's is more a harder-to-tune reed.

When you're a little kid, someone slaps a brass instrument in your hands, and you start to learn.

Even now, centuries after men took up dancing, ballet is seen as much odder than blowing a brass instrument or stripping in a working men's club.

Never mind that I couldn't actually play a brass instrument and that 20 years had passed since I had scraped a pass in grade six oboe.

The age at which a student may begin studying a brass instrument is dependent upon the child's physical size and stamina.

Each contains an image of a musician and emits music 'played' by a different brass instrument, together making up a full brass band.

[music playing] Now the instrument is — that is — playing is a low tuba, a low brass instrument.

And even with a new second-act number (written not long before Bock died in 2010) in which Fiorello bares his soul after losing both his first mayoral run and his first wife, the character remains a gleaming brass instrument with a limited range of notes to play.

Trumpet/Cornet - The trumpet is a common brass instrument, and the cornet is a smaller instrument that is very similar.

He toured Europe and Australia and developed the sousaphone, a large brass instrument similar to the tuba.