A brass aerophone is a musical instrument that produces sound by sympathetic vibration of air in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of the player's lips. Brass instruments are also called labrosones, literally meaning lip-vibrated instruments.
By Robert Wilde. By 1914, the six major powers of Europe were split into two alliances, which would â with the exception of Italy â form the two warring sides in World War One. Britain, France and Russia were in the Triple Entente, while Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy were in the Triple Alliance.
Triple Alliance and Triple Entente (Ã¤ntÃ¤ntÂ´), two international combinations of states that dominated the diplomatic history of Western Europe from 1882 until they came into armed conflict in World War I. Formation of the Triple Alliance.