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Often he bid me come and have a look
Up the brass barrel, velvet black inside,
At a star quaking in the other end.
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
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I’ve been aboard this destroyer for two weeks now, and we’ve already been through four air attacks. I’m in the war at last, Doc. I caught up with that task force that passed me by. I’m glad to be here. I had to be here, I guess. But I’m thinking now of you, Doc, and you, Frank, and Dolan, and Dawdy, and Insignia, and everyone else on that bucket. All the guys everywhere who sailed from tedium to apathy and back again with an occasional sidetrip to monotony. This is a tough crew on here and they have a wonderful battle record. But I’ve discovered, Doc, that the unseen enemy of this war is the boredom that eventually becomes a faith and, therefore, a terrible sort of suicide. And I know now that the ones who refuse to surrender to it are the strongest of all. Right now, I’m looking at something that’s hanging over my desk, a preposterous hunk of brass attached to the most bilious piece of ribbon I’ve ever seen. I’d rather have it than the Congressional Medal of Honor. It tells me what I’ll always be proudest of, that at a time in the world when courage counted most, I lived among sixty-two brave men. So Doc, and especially you, Frank, don’t let those guys down.
—Frank S. Nugent (1908–1965)
The Bright Sound Of Brass Instruments ... While most brass instruments are in fact made out of brass, there are a few exceptions to the rule as some believe that an instrument should be classed as a brass instrument by the sound they make... There are four different types of brass instruments and they are classed into instruments that are known as natural brass instruments, keyed or fingered brass instruments, valved brass and cylindrical bore brass instruments, slide brass instruments and the conical bore brass instruments... Natural brass instruments are instruments that are limited in what notes they can play, such as the bugle and the trumpet....
Brass Instruments Can Really Blow! ... Brass wind instruments deliver a sound unto themselves. Most are fitted with a removable mouthpiece...