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Sackbut
Sackbut Sack"but, n. [F. saquebute, OF. saqueboute a sackbut, earlier, a sort of hook attached to the end of a lance used by foot soldiers to unhorse cavalrymen; prop. meaning, pull and push; fr. saquier, sachier, to pull, draw (perhaps originally, to put into a bag or take out from a bag; see Sack a bag) + bouter to push (see Butt to thrust). The name was given to the musical instrument from its being lengthened and shortened.] (Mus.) A brass wind instrument, like a bass trumpet, so contrived that it can be lengthened or shortened according to the tone required; -- said to be the same as the trombone. [Written also sagbut.] --Moore (Encyc. of Music). Note: The sackbut of the Scriptures is supposed to have been a stringed instrument.

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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...
- The Sackbut was a British music journal published from 1920 to 1934 by the Curwen Press. It published general articles on mainly contemporary, both British...
- The electronic sackbut is an electronic musical instrument designed and first built by Hugh Le Caine in 1945. The electronic sackbut had a feature which...
- "large trumpet". During the Renaissance, the equivalent English term was "sackbut". The word first appears in court records in 1495 as "shakbusshe". "Shakbusshe"...
- Sackbut Review was an American quarterly magazine published in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from 1978 until 1981. Founded and edited by Angela Peckenpaugh, the...
- and sackbut ensemble. Johann Rosenmüller Ensemble, a performance group directed by the German cornetto player Arno Paduch QuintEssential – Sackbut and...
- eighteenth centuries, which typically consisted of shawms and slide trumpets or sackbuts. Waits is the British equivalent. These were not found anywhere outside...
- The English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble are an early music group specializing in music for cornett and sackbut. Formed in 1993, they perform in early music...
- controversial music critic. During 1920–21 he edited the music magazine The Sackbut. His most prolific period as a composer came in the 1920s, when he was...
- British soprano and folksong singer, songwriter, writer and editor of The Sackbut (a critical music magazine). She has been credited as the first woman recording...