sounding brass
41cautious — cautious, circumspect, wary, chary, calculating are comparable when meaning prudently attentive to the dangers one may encounter or the risks one may face, or revealing such attendveness. The same differences in implications and connotations are… …
42tinkling — adjective like the short high ringing sound of a small bell sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal • Syn: ↑tinkly • Similar to: ↑reverberant • Derivationally related forms: ↑tinkle (for: ↑ …
43tinkly — adjective like the short high ringing sound of a small bell sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal • Syn: ↑tinkling • Similar to: ↑reverberant • Derivationally related forms: ↑tinkle …
44brassy — brass|y [ˈbra:si US ˈbræsi] adj 1.) a woman who is brassy is too loud, confident, or brightly dressed ▪ a drunken brassy nightclub singer 2.) sounding hard and loud like the sound made by a ↑brass musical instrument 3.) having a bright gold… …
45Transposing instrument — A transposing instrument is a musical instrument for which written notes are read at a pitch different from the corresponding concert pitch, which a non transposing instrument, such as a piano, would play. Playing a written C on a transposing… …
46keyboard instrument — ▪ music Introduction any musical instrument on which different notes can be sounded by pressing a series of keys, push buttons, or parallel levers. In nearly all cases in Western music the keys correspond to consecutive notes in the… …
47wind instrument — /wind/ a musical instrument sounded by the breath or other air current, as the trumpet, trombone, clarinet, or flute. [1575 85] * * * ▪ music Introduction any musical instrument that uses air as the primary vibrating medium for the… …
48Horn (instrument) — Corno redirects here. For the river, see Corno (river). French horn redirects here. For the luxury hotel and restaurant, see French Horn, Sonning Eye. Horn Horn Brass instrument Other names …
49Glossary of nautical terms — This is a glossary of nautical terms; some remain current, many date from the 17th 19th century. See also Wiktionary s nautical terms, Category:Nautical terms, and Nautical metaphors in English. Contents: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R …
50History of primitive and non-Western trumpets — The chromatic trumpet of Western tradition is a fairly recent invention, but primitive trumpets of one form or another have been in existence for millennia; some of the predecessors of the modern instrument are now known to date back to the… …
