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A sackbut is a Renaissance/Baroque predeccessor to the trombone, often accompanied by cornettos[1]. Here's an example of a Gabrieli canzon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWqFfDnV5KI

In that video the sackbuts are the three people at the back and there are 2 cornettos at the front.

So this is an early synthesiser that sounded a bit like a sackbut presumably.

[1] A virtuosic curved horn instrument with a trumpet-like mouthpiece but fingering like a recorder.




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