This greater height and volume of space, presumably built to accommodate the brass powder machinery, was the key to the project, because it allowed the installation of a second floor with a dramatic two story entryway.
Carnegie Hall's ensemble was built on brass; played by some of the best big-band musicians in the city, it made witty, harmonically progressive music.
They are built with brass, copper, leather and quarter-inch plate glass.
A Victorian machine built of brass and clockwork in 1872, and overhauled in 1942, was used to predict the tide on the invasion beaches.
Your new collaboration with St Vincent (Love This Giant, released last week) is a concept album insofar as all the songs are built around a brass band.
The cathode was built in six brass rods each of 10 mm diameter and 60 mm length and symmetrically located around the anode.
originally built as a brass factory in in the early 1900's.
The opening movement, "Alarming," for example, is built of sliding brass figures overlaid with crystalline vibraphone lines and acidic woodwind chords, and the closing "Twilight" is woven around an oscillating flute motif.
The current showcase is byfeatures Canadian designer Philippe Malouin, whose impressive chandeliers and furniture built entirely of brass tubes and connectors make for the most polished construction-site-looking decor imaginable.
Metheny's arsenal of specially built guitars and brass-mimicking sound effects, plus the astonishing resourcefulness of his drummer, Antonio Sanchez, have seen to that.
