What’s That Sound?: 8 Intriguing Early Musical Instruments: Media
What exactly is a sackbut? Which early instruments require water? Does the rackett make a racket?
Images
A Woman playing a Lute to Two Men, oil on canvas by Gerard ter Borch, c....
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Serpent; in the Musée Instrumental du Conservatoire Royal, Brussels.
Courtesy of the Musée Instrumental, IV Department of the MRAH; © IRPA-KIK, Brussels
Soprano dulcian of boxwood & brass, possibly from Spain, late 16th-early 17th century.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889 (89.4.3479); www.metmuseum.org
Shawms, Renaissance double reed musical instruments of the woodwind family.
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Audio
What does a sackbut sound like? Listen.
The sackbut is an instrument similar to the 21st-century trombone.
Listen to a modern recording of a serpent
The serpent is considered the bass member of the trumpet family.
Curious about the crumhorn? Hear a modern recording.
The crumhorn is a wind-cap instrument most often compared to a bagpipe.