like a polish

[frindle]

Hello. I don't quite understand what "like the polish" means in this context below.
Please help. Thank you.

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"You're in a band?" I am surprised, she doesn't look the type. "What do you play?"
"Trumpet... it's a brass band. Brass-O! Did you get it? Like Hawaii Five-O, but with brass-like the polish.
We play that, Hawaii Five-O."

[JMurray]

"Trumpet... it's a brass band. Brass-O! Did you get it? Like Hawaii Five-O, but with brass-like the polish.
We play that, Hawaii Five-O."

I will try to unravel this for you, frindle.

Firstly, Brasso is a famous old brand of polish used to clean brass objects.
Hawaii Five-O refers to the theme tune to the TV program of the same name.
She is saying that she plays the trumpet in a brass band called Brass-O! – the name of the band is a pun using both the title of the TV program and the name of the polish.
"Brass-O! Like Hawaii Five-O, but with brass – like the polish".


not a teacher

[frindle]

Thank you. Your comment was a big help!!!

[Barb_D]

The final piece is that there is a character in Hawaii Five-O named Danny and the other main character, in the original series, had a frequentely uttered line "Book him, Dan-O." (Book = arrest.)