Editing Sackbut (section)

== Early surviving instruments ==

The earliest instruments:
{| class="wikitable"
! Date !! Maker !! Made in !! Category !! Modern copies </tr>
| 1551||Erasmus Schnitzer||Nuremberg||Tenor||Piquemal, Toulouse (1980 ca.), Ewald Meinl "small bore" <ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.ewaldmeinl.de/meinldt.htm | title=Neue Seite 3 }}</ref> </tr>
| 1557||Georg Neuschel||Nuremberg||Tenor|| </tr>
| c.1560||Unknown||Venice?||Tenor|| </tr>
| 1576||Anton Schnitzer I||Nuremberg||Tenor||<ref>Raquet, Markus and Martius, Klaus: The Schnitzer Family of Nuremberg and a Newly Rediscovered Trombone, Historic Brass Journal 2007</ref> </tr>
| 1579||Anton Schnitzer I||Nuremberg||Bass|| </tr>
| 1581||Anton Schnitzer I||Nuremberg||Tenor||Egger (bore 10.-10.5mm, bell 100mm) <ref>{{cite web | url=https://eggerinstruments.ch/historic/posaunen/renaissance-posaunen/#schnitzer | title=Renaissance Posaunen }}</ref></tr>
| 1587||Conrad Linczer||Nuremberg||Tenor|| </tr>
| 1593||Pierre Colbert||Reims||Bass in G|| </tr>
| 1594||Anton Schnitzer II||Nuremberg||Tenor||Mike Corrigan </tr>
| 1595||Anton Drewelewcz||Nuremberg||Tenor||Ewald Meinl "small bore" </tr>
| 1602||Andreas Reichart||Edfurt||?|| </tr>
| 1607||Simon Reichard||Nuremberg||Bass in E-F|| </tr>
| 1608||Jakob Bauer||Nuremberg||Tenor|| </tr>
| 1612||Isaac Ehe||Nuremberg||Bass in D-Eb||Egger (bore 11.5-12.0mm, bell 124mm) </tr>
| 1677||Christian Kofahl||Meckelenburg||Soprano||bore 13mm external flaring to 74.5mm; authenticity has been questioned but not refuted<ref name="laubhold-hbaj-2000">{{cite journal |title=Sensation or forgery? The 1677 soprano trombone of Cristiann Kofahl |first=Lars E. |last=Laubhold |journal=Historic Brass Society Journal |publisher=Historic Brass Society |date=2000 |volume=12 |pages=259–65 |doi=10.2153/0120000011013 |doi-broken-date=16 January 2025 |url=https://www.historicbrass.org/edocman/hbj-2000/HBSJ_2000_JL01_013_Lauphold_Weiner.pdf |access-date=2 May 2022 }}</ref> </tr>
|}

Other notable sackbuts:
{| class="wikitable"
! Date !! Maker !! Made in !! Category !! Modern copies </tr>
| 1627||Sebastian Hainlein I||Nuremberg||Tenor||(Munich) (1932?) Egger 'tenor-bass' (bore 11.5/12.0mm bell 120mm) </tr>
| 1631||Sebastian Hainlein||Nuremberg||Tenor||Egger (bore 10.5/11.0mm, bell 98mm) </tr>
| 1639||Georg Nicolaus Oller||Stockholm||Bass in F||Ewald Meinl </tr>
| 1653||Paul Hainlein||Nuremberg||Tenor||Ewald Meinl "wide bore" </tr>
| 1670||Hieronimus Starck||Nuremberg||Alto||Egger (bore 10.0/10.0mm, bell 94mm) </tr>
| 1677||Paul Hainlein||Nuremberg||Tenor in C||Currently owned by [[Christian Lindberg]] </tr>
| 1785||Johann Joseph Schmied||Pfaffendorf||Alto in Eb||Egger "classical" </tr>
| 1785||Johann Joseph Schmied||Pfaffendorf||Bass in F||Egger "classical" </tr>
| 1778||Johann Joseph Schmied||Pfaffendorf||Tenor||(private collection in Basel) Egger "classical" </tr>
|}

For more information, see Herbert (2006).<ref name="Herbert 57"/>