Help: What's a saggbut?

Subject: RE: Help: What's a saggbut?
From: MMario
Date: 05 Dec 01 - 12:41 PM

according to the site above - the literal meaning was something like "pull-push"

Subject: RE: Help: What's a saggbut?
From: GUEST,Frank
Date: 05 Dec 01 - 11:01 AM

Sometimes spelled "saquebut". It's from a French word meaning pump.

It's the forerunner of the trombone. It is used in early music consorts and comes in different voices, alto, soprano as well as tenor and bass. It was mostly used with choirs in liturgical music.

Frank

Subject: RE: Help: What's a saggbut?
From: Bert
Date: 05 Dec 01 - 10:20 AM

LOL Hilary, remembering "What's my Line" and Richard Dimbleby

Subject: RE: Help: What's a saggbut?
From: Kim C
Date: 05 Dec 01 - 09:59 AM

Well, waddya know, "sackbut" was indeed in my dictionary, and is defined as an early trombone. However, it also says that in Biblical times, a sackbut was some sort of stringed instrument.

The plot thickens.

Subject: RE: Help: What's a saggbut?
From: Hilary
Date: 05 Dec 01 - 01:20 AM

It's probably played by a Saggar-Maker's-Bottom-Knocker.

H

Subject: RE: Help: What's a saggbut?
From: Bert
Date: 05 Dec 01 - 12:43 AM

Yup, it's an early trombone with a narrow bore. My nephew plays one with his early music group.

Subject: RE: Help: What's a saggbut?
From: Chip2447
Date: 04 Dec 01 - 11:57 PM

Hey folks lets leave my lard arse out the conversation please...

saggybutt Chip2247

Subject: RE: Help: What's a saggbut?
From: 53
Date: 04 Dec 01 - 10:55 PM

somebody with low hanging ass cheeks. BOB

Subject: RE: Help: What's a saggbut?
From: nutty
Date: 04 Dec 01 - 06:52 PM

I would say that "saggbutt" is entirely appropriate ....... it is after all a WIND instrument ... (groan)

Subject: RE: Help: What's a saggbut?
From: MartinRyan
Date: 04 Dec 01 - 06:44 PM

As they say... "It's hard to be fit as a fiddle when you're shaped like a cello..."

Regards

Subject: RE: Help: What's a saggbut?
From: Kim C
Date: 04 Dec 01 - 06:36 PM

No, Spaw, since I discovered Tae Bo, the size of my Fiddlebum has decreased somewhat, and its shape has improved as well. ;-)

What would really be nice on these recordings where people use rather obscure instruments, is a description of what the instruments are. The York Waits use a whole passel of very old instruments, and Mister and I had to look them up in the dictionary! I'll bet if we look for "sackbut" it'll be in there.

Subject: RE: Help: What's a saggbut?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 04 Dec 01 - 05:39 PM

Well, I don't really want to talk about it-- I am trying to leave that all behind.

~S~

Subject: RE: Help: What's a saggbut?
From: catspaw49
Date: 04 Dec 01 - 05:36 PM

No, no......I'm stayin' out of this. Y'all are doing just great!!! I particularly like Shagbutt, but it's lees fun with a sagbutt.....and I'm surprised no one has mentioned Kim's Fiddle Butt.........Kim, as you get older, do you fear that your fiddle butt will join with a sag butt and produce a cello? Or....God forbid...a Double Bass Butt?

Spaw

Subject: RE: Help: What's a saggbut?
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 04 Dec 01 - 05:29 PM

The OED gives 13 spellings, not counting Spanish and other languages. The entry is under sackbut.
Sagbutt is one of them.

Subject: RE: Help: What's a saggbut?
From: Kim C
Date: 04 Dec 01 - 05:02 PM

Quick! Joe! Delete the thread! ;-)

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Hey, there's music in this thread, and culture, and everything! I can't delete it....
But if I use the term "saggbutt" in the presence of certain women (like my ex-wife), I'm in big trouble.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Help: What's a saggbut?
From: Cappuccino
Date: 04 Dec 01 - 05:02 PM

Kim, what with websites and sackbuts, you're having a very confusing day, aren't you...?!

:)

- IanB

Subject: RE: Help: What's a saggbut?
From: MMario
Date: 04 Dec 01 - 04:55 PM

of course, you know we're in trouble if 'spaw finds out about shakebushes and shakebutts

Subject: RE: Help: What's a saggbut?
From: Kim C
Date: 04 Dec 01 - 04:52 PM

Shagbutt?!!!!?

Thanks MMario. :-)

Subject: RE: Help: What's a saggbut?
From: MMario
Date: 04 Dec 01 - 04:47 PM

if you look at the link I put in above - you'll see that (as with many other early english words) there were a lot of variant spellings

Subject: RE: Help: What's a saggbut?
From: Kim C
Date: 04 Dec 01 - 04:43 PM

On the York Waits CD I have, it's spelled saggbut.

Subject: RE: Help: What's a saggbut?
From: GUEST, Cookieless Member
Date: 04 Dec 01 - 04:43 PM

Holy Cross-postings Batman!

& MMario, you just know thats gonna get Catspaw posting on here, & his jokes are even worse!

Subject: RE: Help: What's a saggbut?
From: GUEST, Cookieless Member
Date: 04 Dec 01 - 04:40 PM

I THINK its some kind of Trombone actually, & think that it spelt SACKBUT (which sure does make it sound like some kind of bagpipe!) Maybe thats why nothing has come up on a Search, which youve tried I dont doubt.

I'm going out in a moment so I havent looked for you.

Subject: RE: Help: What's a saggbut?
From: Cappuccino
Date: 04 Dec 01 - 04:38 PM

Are you thinking of a sackbut? A sort of Renaissance forerunner to the trombone, but I guess someone'll pop up with a better description.

Some 'early mousic' consorts still play 'em.

- Ian B

Subject: RE: Help: What's a saggbut?
From: MMario
Date: 04 Dec 01 - 04:37 PM

'spaw after a rough nite.

Do You possibly mean a sackbut?

it's an relative of the trombone

Subject: What's a saggbut?
From: Kim C
Date: 04 Dec 01 - 04:31 PM

Best I can figure, it's some kind of a bagpipe.

Does anyone know? Thanks!