Sackbut
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A sackbut is an early form of the trombone used during the Renaissance and Baroque eras. A sackbut has the characteristic telescopic slide of a trombone, used to vary the length of the tube to change
Left to right: replica alto, tenor and bass sackbuts, in Museu de la Música de Barcelona.
Four sackbuts: two tenors, left & middle; alto, top; bass, right.
Sackbut in a fresco by Filippino Lippi in Rome, The Assumption of the Virgin, dating from 1488 to 1493. This is the earliest clear evidence of a double-slide instrument.
Bass sackbut in G by Pierre Colbert, 1593. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Brass instrument
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A brass instrument 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. The term labrosone, from Lati
Sackbut
…Sackbut Renaissance-era tenor sackbut (modern replica) Brass instrument Classification Wind Brass Aerophone Hornbostel–Sachs classification 423.22 (Sliding aerophone sounded by lip vibration) Developed Earliest form of the…
Six high brass instruments Left, from top: A reproduction baroque trumpet in D, a modern trumpet in B♭, a modern trumpet in D, a piccolo trumpet in B♭ (octave higher), and a flugelhorn in B♭. Right: a cornet in B♭.
A tenor horn (alto horn) in E♭, baritone horn in B♭, and euphonium in B♭
Brass instrument piston valves
Flugelhorn with three pistons and a trigger