sackbut

• Then he was to be set up on a pedestal, like Nebuchadnezzar's image on the plains of Dura; and what time the world heard the sound of cornet, sackbut, and dulcimer, in his enchanting verse, they were to fall down and worship. —  Lady Byron Vindicated
• Let all people with cymbals, sackbut, shawms and psaltery cry aloud, saying 'Great is the Kaiser and all his people And now suddenly the myth has burst like a bubble. —  The Blot on the Kaiser's 'Scutcheon
• The 'sackbut' was merely our modern slide trombone, while the rest of these instruments were in common use in the 16th century, except the Psaltery, which Kircher (b. 1601) says is the same as the Nebel of the Bible. —  Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries
• She, however, retained her hold upon the blasé and alcoholic monarch by her wonderful versatility and genius When all her talents as an artiste and politician palled upon his old rum-soaked and emaciated brain, and ennui, like a mighty canker, ate away large corners of his moth-eaten soul, she would sit in the gloaming and sing to him, "Hard Times, Hard Times, Come Again No More," meantime accompanying herself on the harpsichord or the sackbut or whatever they played in those days. —  The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VI. (of X.)
• I should have played the sackbut, because I haven't the faintest notion how you work the thing--whether you blow into it, or pull it in and out, or tread upon it; nor what manner of surprising sound it emits, when you do any or all of these things. —  The Upas Tree A Christmas Story for all the Year

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