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
Pena (musical instrument) believed that the name of the instrument is a derivation of the ancient Meetei term ,Pena sheijing Pena. The Nagas call the instrument, "Tingtelia". 1".Yaikairol (for peoples to make make up)" 2..Lai-eekouba (By doing this to start Lai-haraoba festivals) 3.Khunung -Eesei (Folk songs ) 4.Luhongba ( Marriage) 5.Wari -Liba ( narrating story by using this mussical instrument) 6.PuYa Paba ( Reading PuYa by using this musical instrument ) The instrument consist of two parts, the main body, "penamasa" or "dhorr" which is similar to that of a violin and the bow, "pena cheijing" or "chorr", which is more resembling an