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
Sambuca (instrument) and fanciful descriptions of instruments in the apocryphal letter of Saint Jerome, ("to Dardanus"). Among these is a , which resembles a somewhat primitive sackbut without the bell joint. In the 19th Century it was reproduced by Edmond de Coussemaker, Charles de la Croix and Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, and has given rise to endless discussions without leading to any satisfactory solution. Fabio Colonna created the pentecontachordon keyboard instrument which he called a sambuca. Sambuca (instrument) The sambuca (also "sambute", "sambiut", "sambue", "sambuque", or "sambuke") was an ancient stringed instrument of Asiatic origin. However, many other instruments have also been called