sackbut
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Middle French sacquer (“to push”) + bouter (“to pull”)
Noun[edit]
sackbut (plural sackbuts)
- (music) A brass instrument from the Renaissance and Baroque Eras, and an ancestor of the modern trombone. It was derived from the medieval slide trumpet.
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Translations[edit]
brass instrument
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See also[edit]
sackbut on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Sackbut in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)