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A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
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brass. 1. Mixed metal, an alloy of copper and zinc, capable of taking a high polish.
2. In the sense of an engraved plate or other design let into a slab of stone or set on top of an altar-tomb, it is not true brass, but an alloy of copper and tin, creating
bronze or
latten, and examples abound with incised figures,
town-canopies, and inscriptions, often with infill of black resin, enamels, and mastic. The monumental or memorial ‘brass’ once again became popular in the C19
Gothic Revival, using true brass.
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BRASS BAND RESULTS
Newspaper article from: The Press; 4/17/2000; 498 words
; Results of band events from the Shell Millennium Brass Bands Festival: A Grade Hymn: Waitakere City Brass, 148 pts, 1; Woolston Brass, 147, 2; Ascot Park Hotel of Invercargill, 145, 3. A Grade Test: Woolston...
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Brass cleaning, trail boss powder.(Reloading Bench)
Magazine article from: Handguns; 2/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; IN ORDER TO RELOAD BRASS, YOU HAVE TO CLEAN BRASS. I KNOW SOME RELOADERS WHO DON'T, AND I JUS DON'T GET IT. THEY SIMPLY SHAKE THEIR BRASS IN A MESH BAG (USUALLY AT THE RANGE) AND THEN TRUST THE SIZING...
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Starline Brass. (Handloader).
Magazine article from: Guns Magazine; 8/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...shooters and reloaders is the rise of Starline Brass. It is hard to overstate the effect they...Sierra Bullets, recognized a need for brass that was not being met by the major manufacturers. They didn't want to sell brass in the first place and generally only sold...
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Brass bands get a raw deal.
Newspaper article from: The Star (Sheffield) (Sheffield, England); 11/26/2007; 700+ words
; ...handed 1,000 times more arts funding than brass bands. Jeff Ennis, Labour MP Barnsley East and Mexborough, warned the future of brass bands across the region could be under...000 has been spent by the Arts Council on brass bands during the same period. In fact...
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Brass is back
Newspaper article from: The Press; 7/7/2004; ; 700+ words
; On the wave of a resurgence, brass bands have massed in Christchurch for New...forward, looking back -- the faces of the brass band movement are two sides of a coin...score. They are the evolving image of brass. Walker, for the last four years a member...
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Brass instruments: advice from the pros
Magazine article from: Canadian Musician; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Laughton was a founding member of The Canadian Brass and played principal trumpet at La Scala...Stuart is also a member of the True North Brass. Joan Watson performed as Associate Principal...well as performing with the True North Brass. Joan's first solo album, Songs My...
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Brass bed prices rise.
Magazine article from: Furniture-Today; 6/11/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Thomas Russell Sharp hike in copper costs blamed High Point- The rising cost of copper used in brass tubing has raised the cost of brass beds. For brass that comes in two-inch tubing, the price has risen to more than $5 a pound, up from just...
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Brass Key Launches Collector's Club Through Newly Designed Website; www.brass-key.com Becomes Ultimate Destination for Brass Key Collectors.
PR Newswire; 10/29/2003; 700+ words
; ...Wash., Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- The Brass Key, Inc. re-launched their website...premiere location for information about Brass Key collectibles and giftables both new and retired. The site, http://www.brass-key.com/ , is dedicated to providing...
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Brass can add sparkle // Its solid luster vitalizes decor
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 4/2/1989; ; 700+ words
; ...you probably have to endure the sound of brasses at inappropriate times. I happen to like the look of brasses - especially when those brasses relate to beds, bedposts and footboards. The big brass bed with its polished look is here to stay...
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Top Brass, Chicago, 'does its own thing.'
Magazine article from: Gifts & Decorative Accessories; 7/1/1984; ; 700+ words
; A retail shop that only carries top quality brass on the top floor of Chicago's Water Tower...couldn't be named anything but ...Top Brass. In only ten years, Don Sherry, Top Brass president, has risen to the top of the class...
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Brass
Book article from: How Products Are Made
...depending on the type of brass and its intended use. Brasses containing a high...depending on the type of brass. Brasses with a higher percentages...actually a leaded brass. As a result of these...confusing names, brasses in the United States...
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The Canadian Brass
Book article from: Contemporary Musicians
The Canadian Brass Brass quintet For the Record … Since their appearance on the music scene in the 1970s, the Toronto-based Canadian Brass have established themselves as the first self-supporting professional...
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Canadian Brass
Dictionary entry from: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990
CANADIAN BRASS Formed: 1970, Toronto Members: Ryan Anthony, trumpet...trombonist Gene Watts came up with the idea for the Canadian Brass in 1968, there were no working professional brass quintets. The group was formed two years later with tuba...
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Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Book article from: Contemporary Musicians
Dirty Dozen Brass Band Jazz band For the Record … From the late 1970s until the middle 1990s, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band revitalized the New Orleans brass band sound. They mixed it with the contemporary styles of...
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brass
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
brass traditionally taken as a type of hardness...Middle English to the late 18th century), brass was used for copper or bronze coin; from...x2018;cash’. In the UK, brass also denotes a memorial, typically a medieval...
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