Sentence:  The padre in my neighborhood — Santa Ana — was having some kind of a fiesta, and had hired a very <WSD>brass</WSD> band. This band kept up its martial airs for hours and hours after I got home, with grand finales — or what each time I hoped would be the grand finale, every five minutes. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Bad, annoying; "as wordplay applied especially to brass instruments".