brass band

She referred to the Siskiyou brass-band, which was rehearsing the march from “Fatinitza” in an adjacent room in the building.

I was lookin' at them hosses t'other day in the court-house yard, an' the Chester brass-band come along.

The "brass-band" promoter, be it understood, is therefore not without honor in the Far West.

It isn't safe, sir, to hunt Indians with an animal that carries a brass-band attachment.