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
Dizi (instrument) Dizi (instrument) The dizi (, pronounced ), is a Chinese transverse flute. It is also sometimes known as the "di" () or "héngdi" (), and has varieties including the "qǔdi" () and "bāngdi" (). These names are likely to have multiple spellings, too, depending on the transliteration used to convert from Chinese names. Nonetheless, "dizi" seems to be the most common name (and written form) used in the West. The "dizi" is a major Chinese musical instrument, and is widely used in many genres of Chinese folk music, as well as Chinese opera, and the modern Chinese orchestra. Traditionally, the