1906

Historian Francis W. Galpin, in his classic paper on the history of the sackbut, laments, “How Mersenne would shudder at the ordinary trombone playing of the present day…. Would it not be possible to revive in the 20th century the true sackbut playing for which England was so famous in the sixteenth century?” (Galpin, The Sackbut).**

Francis W. Galpin in 1906