Slide trumpet
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The slide trumpet is an early type of trumpet fitted with a movable section of telescopic tubing, similar to the slide of a trombone. Eventually, the slide trumpet evolved into the sackbut, which evol
Modern reconstruction of a fifteenth-century slide trumpet
Possibly slide trumpets or sackbuts or clarion trumpets.
Collegium Musicum musical gathering, circa 1590. From the left: viol, flute, mandörgen or gittern, fiddle or rebec, shawm, harp, slide trumpet or clarion trumpet, cornett, clavichord.
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
Slide trumpet
…type of trumpet fitted with a movable section of telescopic tubing, similar to the slide of a trombone. Eventually, the slide trumpet evolved into the sackbut, which evolved into the modern-day trombone. The key difference between these two instruments is that the slide trumpet possesses only a single slide…
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