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  • noun Alternative spelling of sackbut.

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  • Yet, the first music must have been made by a sheepherder who really dreamed of being a poet or a prophet and started singing the blues in rhyming verse out on those heathen hills on those long lonely nights and days with nothing but god-damn sheep munching away around you as you sit watching your flock and playing your lyre or sackbutt and puffing out diddy after diddy.

    Whatever Happened to "Classical" Music? Part II The Daily Growler 2006

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