1546—Antwerp, Belgium

A woodcut in Tielman Susato’s first printed mass book, Liber primus missarum, depicts a religious service with singers and a trombone player. According to one historian, the trombonist can be identified as Susato himself, “…by the robe or tabard he wears reflecting his membership in the city band and by the similarity of this musician to a woodcut showing Susato presenting his first music book…to Mary of Hungary” (Forney, New Insights 3; Forney, New Documents 22-24; Forney, Renaissance 120).