Brass bands paraded in our honor, and we were later met by them in many of the smaller towns.
She was very fond of a good brass band, especially when heard in the open air.
There was a good floor at Silver's and a brass band to dance to.
There was music every where—choruses, string bands, brass bands, flutes, every thing.
When Senator Douglas arrived at the railroad station, his friends and admirers met him with a brass band.
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For him, playing in thebrassbandclub meant to 'do something' in his school life.
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For female members of thebrassbandclub, karaoke provided another means for keeping up with their friends' taste for media-popular.
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Thebrassbandplayed what the ordinary band played, so we knew all the tunes from our normal repertoire.
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Herbrassbandcommitments left her little time, so she chose this way to keep up with the popular music charts.
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In the semi-formal site of thebrassbandclub, pupils attempted to hide their personal music.
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He was full of confidence about his decision to join thebrassbandclub.
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This did not apply to allbrassbandinstrumentalists; we discovered that cornet players - whose instrument is interchangeable with the trumpet - disregarded this constraint.
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Vernacular instruments (acoustic guitar and tambourine) are accompanied by 'classical' strings and a 'vernacular'brassband.
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When it was opened, we were surprised and delighted at the extent to which the architecture was transformed by the simple addition of abrassband.
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The rector suffered a nervous collapse and narrowly avoided being accompanied to the station by abrassbandhired for the occasion by his evangelical opponents.
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By contrast, girls appealed to 'common music', in the form of chart hits and the current karaoke repertoire, in order to conceal their personal music in thebrassbandsetting.
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I interviewed members of a high schoolbrassbandclub, and attended a high school band event in order to interview mainly boys as performers outside the school.
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Almost every village community has itsbrassband.
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Will he reconsider the matter, because thebrassbandmovement has a great deal of cultural support in many parts of the country?
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We might send abrassbandwith them to attract attention, instead of leaving the staff officers to sit in their offices.
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