Editing Sackbut (section)

==Symbolism==
[[File:At the Last Trump (6379252387).jpg|thumb|Trombone on a 1909 headstone, Christ Church, [[Todmorden]]]]
The sound of sackbuts (and trombones) has long been thought especially solemn and noble, had an association with death and the afterlife.<ref name=SFSO>[https://www.sfsymphony.org/Watch-Listen-Learn/Read-Program-Notes/Program-Notes/BEETHOVEN-Three-Equali-for-Four-Trombones,-WoO-30.aspx Beethoven: Three Equali for Four Trombones, WoO 30  │  An die ferne Geliebte, Opus 98   │  Symphony No. 4 in B-flat Major, Opus 60 ] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161225080236/https://www.sfsymphony.org/Watch-Listen-Learn/Read-Program-Notes/Program-Notes/BEETHOVEN-Three-Equali-for-Four-Trombones,-WoO-30.aspx |date=25 December 2016 }}, Program notes, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra</ref> The instrument was a symbol of divine presence, the voice of the angels and instrument of judgment.<ref name=triton>From sleevenotes, Triton Trombone Quartet: "German Trombone Music"; BIS-CD-644</ref> This symbolism can be seen, for instance, in ''[[L'Orfeo]]'', ''[[Alceste (Gluck)|Alceste]]'', ''[[The Magic Flute]]'', the [[Saul (Handel)#The .22Dead March.22|''Death March'']] from [[Saul (Handel)|''Saul'']], and funeral [[aequale]]s.<ref name=kimball_18/>

This association was probably encouraged by the lack of distinction made between [[natural horn]]s, [[slide trumpet]]s, and trombones in this [[Renaissance]]; they were used and often named interchangeably. [[Luther Bible|Martin Luther's 1534 translation]] of the Bible into German renders the Greek ''[[shofar|shophar]]'' and ''[[salpinx|salpigx]]'' to ''Posaune''. ''Posaune'' at the time could refer to a [[natural horn]] or other brass instrument, but it later came to mean exclusively "trombone" (similarly, English translations generally have "trumpet", and only occasionally "horn" or "[[shofar]]"). This gives the later reader of the Luther Bible texts such as: “…we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trombone; for the trombone shall sound and the dead shall be raised incorruptible" ([[1 Corinthians 15]]:52).<ref>{{Cite web|title=Trombone History: 16th Century|url=https://kimballtrombone.com/trombone-history-timeline/trombone-history-16th-century-2/|access-date=2023-03-11|website=Will Kimball|language=en-US}}</ref>