Readings in English social history from contemporary literature . de of Wood & after the same mannerof the Cornet, & about the same length, bored thorough also,with little holes at the side, to be stopt with the fingers,for distinction of Soundes. This is a streight Piece of Wood,& hath a Reede put into the Smaller end thereof (which ismade artificially, & bound about the Lower end with aThred) which with the blast of the mouth causeth a shrillSound, & is done with lesse straininge than the Cornet,which hath no Reede, but the Sound thereof forced with theMouth. The greater end of it is made in
Readings in English social history from contemporary literature . de of Wood & after the same mannerof the Cornet, & about the same length, bored thorough also,with little holes at the side, to be stopt with the fingers,for distinction of Soundes. This is a streight Piece of Wood,& hath a Reede put into the Smaller end thereof (which ismade artificially, & bound about the Lower end with aThred) which with the blast of the mouth causeth a shrillSound, & is done with lesse straininge than the Cornet,which hath no Reede, but the Sound thereof forced with theMouth. The greater end of it is made in forme of a littleBell, like the end of a Trumpet. The Sackbut is made of Brasse or Alchimyx & givesdistinction of Soundes, not by holes, as other Pipes,but by movinge the outward part of it higher or Lower;for there is a Devise vppon it, to be drawne vp & Sound of it is caused by the blast of the mouth; &it hath some resemblance to a Trumpet. This instrumentgiveth a Deepe Sound, & is to play the Basse-parte. 1 A Seventeenth Century Schoolroom
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