Early versions of the organ, fiddle (or vielle), and trombone (called the sackbut) existed as well. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
(Chald. sabkha; Gr. sambuke), a Syrian stringed instrument resembling a harp (Dan. 3: 5, 7, 10, 15); not the modern sackbut, which is a wind instrument. From Wordnik.com. [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference
A sackbut is a brass horn that looks alot like a trombone with a slightly smaller bell, and a shawm is a double reed instrument that is a predecessor to the oboe. From Wordnik.com. [Calling all Brits - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
The 'sackbut' was merely our modern slide trombone, while the rest of these instruments were in common use in the 16th century, except the Psaltery, which Kircher (b. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries] Reference
"Wake, sackbut, psaltery, and harp -- wake yet again!". From Wordnik.com. [Poems of the Heart and Home] Reference
Of sackbut, psaltery, and harp, ye bend in homage -- well. From Wordnik.com. [Poems of the Heart and Home] Reference
He and his fellows sound the sackbut, whose notes are more doleful than the notes of other music are, though indeed some say the bass is the ground of music. From Wordnik.com. [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference
Here's another one -- define "sackbut". From Wordnik.com. [Games] Reference
A statesman that has dropped his mask and cracked his sackbut. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems of Henry Van Dyke] Reference
My sackbut is not very sweet, and here is the ode I have made for it. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3] Reference
Folk etymology is the kind of scholarship that relates sackbut with bagasse. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XX No 2] Reference
+ The sackbut, a harp-like instrument of four strings and of triangular form. From Wordnik.com. [Smith's Bible Dictionary] Reference
The air is heavy with perfume and tremulous with the music of harp and dulcimer and sackbut. From Wordnik.com. [Revival Addresses] Reference
He and his fellows sound the sackbut, whose notes are more doleful than the notes of other music are. From Wordnik.com. [Bunyan Characters (2nd Series)] Reference
We do not now have those that the Psalmist makes so much of, the old-time harp, the sackbut, the psaltery. From Wordnik.com. [Our Unitarian Gospel] Reference
You may strike up your sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer; for Mr. Pitt (967) comes in, and Lord Temple does not. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3] Reference
A politician that is stuffed with big words; a fat man in a mask; one that plays a solemn tune on a sackbut full o 'wind. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems of Henry Van Dyke] Reference
The 'beano' comes very near to this land -- so near that across its marches you may hear the sackbut and shawm from the breaks. From Wordnik.com. [In Homespun] Reference
In matter of musical instruments, he learned to play upon the lute, the virginals, the harp, the Almain flute with nine holes, the viol, and the sackbut. From Wordnik.com. [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1] Reference
Persian -- in that hot and stately land of golden images and old rivers and the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer and all kinds of music. From Wordnik.com. [Foes] Reference
The barrel-organ was scarcely a great improvement upon the "cornet, flute, sackbut, psaltery" -- I mean the violins, 'cellos, clarionets, and bassoons which it supplanted. From Wordnik.com. [The Parish Clerk] Reference
The sabbeka, or "sackbut," a lute or lyre. From Wordnik.com. [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference
Group, assembling expert solo singers and booking the cornetto and sackbut early trombone. From Wordnik.com. [The Seattle Times] Reference
To the first class belong the harp, the psaltery (also rendered "viol", "dulcimer", etc.), the sackbut (Lat. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference
Let all people with cymbals, sackbut, shawms and psaltery cry aloud, saying 'Great is the Kaiser and all his people!'". From Wordnik.com. [The Blot on the Kaiser's 'Scutcheon] Reference
Our attendant was also the sackbut player. From Wordnik.com. [The Halloween They All Dressed as Darth Vader] Reference
The uvula, like a sackbut. From Wordnik.com. [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4] Reference
He heard the solemn sackbut play. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of a Wayside Inn] Reference
And sackbut deep, and psaltery, 640. From Wordnik.com. [Marmion] Reference
English name of the trombone is sackbut. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891] Reference
It proceeds from three pipers, one of whom plays an old/shawm/, another a/ sackbut/, and the third a/ pommer/, or oboe. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life] Reference
First chair, sackbut. From Wordnik.com. [Woot! - One Day, One Deal] Reference
The cornet, sackbut, dulcimer, and lute. From Wordnik.com. [Poems] Reference
Woke sackbut, psaltery, and harp, woke dulcimer and flute. From Wordnik.com. [Poems of the Heart and Home] Reference
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