The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880, tr · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 253
the men of the West and the African andAsiatic races introduced among the former the use of musical instruments ofa harsh and piercing tone. Then it was that the Saracen-horns, made of D D 202 MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. copper, replaced the wooden or horn trumpets. At the same period sackbuts,or sambutes… … Fig. 167.—Sambnie, or Sackbut, of the Ninth Century. (Boulogne MS.) by adapting to it the system of holes, which up to that time had been thecharacteristic of flutes (Fig. 168). But among all the wind -instruments of the Middle Ages, theorgan was the one most imposing in its nature, and destined to…
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