Buisine

Buisine (OFr.) [Lat. *buccina], OFr. term for larger horns and trumpets, first recorded in the Chanson de Roland (1100–20) and frequently mentioned thereafter. Until the late 12th c. it was a long horn, slightly curved, used as a martial signal instr. By the 13th c. it was supplanted by a straight, long Saracen trumpet to which the name buisine was transferred. This had a tapering tube some 1.20–2.10 m. (4–7 ft.) long, made of several sections, the joints being covered by ornamental bosses, and…