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
Janzi (musical instrument) modern instrument. He also had an idea of removing and replacing the nails on the adungu with a more acceptable material back in 2014 after their band's, (Janzi band) member was not allowed to transport the adungu through Copenhagen Airport because it had nails as pegs. The first Janzi was created in 2015 and it was recognized as an instrument in 2017 by the government of Uganda. The instrument has been used by folk and world musicians such as Ssewa Ssewa and Janzi Band. It has also been featured in live performance by Feridah Rose from Denmark and Giovanni Kiyingi.