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
Zhu (percussion instrument) in Confucian ritual music by the Taiwan Confucian Temple. The "Zhu" is mentioned, along with another percussion instrument called "Yu" (敔), in pre-Qin Dynasty annals, and appears in the Classic of History. The Korean "Chuk" (hangul: 축; hanja: 柷), a musical instrument that is essentially identical to the "Zhu", from which it was derived, continues to be used in Korean Confucian court ritual music. Zhu (percussion instrument) The Zhu (Chinese: 柷; pinyin: zhù) was a percussion instrument used in the Confucian court ritual music of ancient China. It consisted of a wooden box (which was often painted red or otherwise