Trombone

TROMBONE (Eng., Fr., Ital.; Germ. Posaune). The name, originally Italian, given to the graver forms of the Tromba or Trumpet, exactly corresponding with that of Violone as the bass of the Viola. Its other name, Sacbut or Sackbut, though English in sound, seems really to come from a Spanish or Moorish root Sacabuche, which is the name of a pump. In the Spanish dictionary of Velasquez de la Cadena this word has three meanings assigned to it; two as above,...