The Brass Ensemble performs as a brass choir and as the 19th century styled W&M Cornet Band ... and tuba as well as specialty instruments such as flugelhorn, cornet, eb and piccolo trumpets. In ...

But old brass instruments of comparable pedigrees don ... claim to source their metals from the same quarries as their 19th-century predecessors just don’t sound the same.

These instruments became so popular that they were largely responsible for the brass band movement in Great Britain and the U.S. in the 19th century. The collection also features oddly shaped ...

He took a 19th-century yellow-and-white barn in bucolic Pennsylvania and converted it into a museum to house one of the world’s largest collections of brass instruments and to serve as well as a ...

Since then, he estimates, he has made to order 30 or 40 reproductions of such 19th-century brass instruments. Collectors and history-buff aggregations such as the Regiment Band of the 11th North ...

The composer insisted on the design of a new brass instrument which could play the lowest parts in his opera scores. That new creation, which went on to be featured in many 19th-century Italian opera ...

In this blog post, Tizzano illustrates how Dr. Foster and others of his time had access to a growing collection of surgical instruments ... second half of the nineteenth century, the requisites ...

Since its origins in Great Britain in the mid nineteenth century, the British style brass band has become a popular ensemble around the world. The Magnolia City Brass Band is among Houston’s ...