[Trombone-l] Of new trombone quintets

[Chris Tune]

Mistranslation. . .very, very common.  Was doublessly originally a "big 
trumpet". . .which would have been dilligently translated using Medieval 
texts into "sackbut".   There were no slide based instruments with 
"positions" prior to the renaissance.  Archeologists have dug up these sites 
and have found trumpets and big trumpets but nothing more. . .remember even 
in the renaissance times this would probably have been called a "trombone" 
in Italy. . .sackbut was more a Western European (i.e. English / French) 
term.

The confusion mostly arises from what the term "trombone" actually meant 
waaaaay back when.

Chris

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> The prophet Jerimah refers to the sackbut as a temple instrument. 
> Doesen't
> that put it BC??
>
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> beldon wade
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