Sackbut modern orchestra sounds out of tune, but it tunes perfectly well on in a sackbut choir if everyone plays natural harmonics. Plenty of musical understanding can be gathered from reading the original music print. Publishers such as SPES and Arnaldo Forni Edition provide facsimile copies of plenty of music for trombone from this era. To read these it one needs to become familiar with the old clefs, time signatures, ligatures and notational conventions of the era. The sound of sackbuts (and trombones) has long been thought especially solemn and noble, had an association with death and the afterlife. The instrument
Se (instrument) in the 20th century was Wu Jinglüe, who was primarily a "guqin" player. There are also very few surviving examples of musical tablature for the instrument, a majority existing in "qinpu" (tablature for the "guqin") in which the "se" was used to provide accompaniment for the "qin". Recently, there has been a revived interest in the "se", with some musicians studying it. There are also a few factories that make a modern "se" using nylon-wrapped metal strings, though the instrument needs to be properly researched using modern mediums for it to be fully acceptable as a playable instrument for general