[Trombone-l] Scriptural reference for the sackbut

[Bill Dinwiddie]

OK, I know this list is not a religious resource, but, wasn't the majority 
of the bible rewritten in English as the King James Version? Many of these 
instrumental references are very likely translated from Latin or Greek or 
some other language, and so we see references to cornets and sackbuts, and 
dulcimers, etc., which were actually current at the time of the translation, 
perhaps in the 1400's. I doubt the sackbut existed in 535 BC, but the 
shofar, or ram's horn, probably existed a lot earlier. Some of our Jewish 
members may have in fact played a shofar, as they are still used in 
religious cermonies...I hear they are pretty tough to get a good sound on.

I am certainly no biblical expert, but this makes sense to me,

Bill Dinwiddie
billdin at comcast.net



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The Scriptural reference for the sackbut is not Jeremiah, but Daniel. Daniel
is estimated to be written in about 535 BC.



Dan 3:5 <http://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/Dan/Dan003.html#5>  [That] at
what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery,
dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the golden image
that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up:

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Dan 3:7 <http://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/Dan/Dan003.html#7>  Therefore at
that time, when all the people heard the sound of the cornet, flute, harp,
sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds of musick, all the people, the nations, and
the languages, fell down [and] worshipped the golden image that
Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.