The slide trumpet is an early type of

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fitted with a movable section of telescopic tubing, similar to the slide of a

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. Eventually, the slide trumpet evolved into the

sackbut A sackbut is an early form of the trombone used during the Renaissance music, Renaissance and Baroque music, Baroque eras. A sackbut has the characteristic telescopic slide of a trombone, used to vary the length of the tube to change Pitch (m ...

, which evolved into the modern-day trombone. The key difference between these two instruments is that the slide trumpet possesses only a ''single'' slide joint, rather than the two joints in the U-shaped slide of the sackbut or trombone. There are several types of slide trumpet of different places and eras.

Early instrument

The slide trumpet grew out of the war trumpet as used and developed in Western and Central Europe: Don Smithers argues that the slide grew out of the detachable leadpipe, and separated the use of the trumpet as a dance instrument from the trumpet as a signaling device in war.

Renaissance slide trumpet

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'' As no instruments from this period are known to have survived, the details—and even the existence—of a Renaissance slide trumpet is a matter of some conjecture, and there continues to be some debate among scholars. Some slide trumpet designs saw use in England in the 18th century. File:Concertino di gentiluomini, by Girolamo Romanino circa 1540s.jpg, Possibly slide trumpets or

s or clarion trumpets. File:Collegium musicum 1590.jpg,

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musical gathering, circa 1590. From the left:

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, flute, mandörgen or

gittern The gittern was a relatively small gut-strung, round-backed instrument that first appeared in literature and pictorial representation during the 13th century in Western Europe (Iberian Peninsula, Italy, France, England). It is usually depicted p ...

, fiddle or rebec,

shawm The shawm () is a Bore (wind instruments)#Conical bore, conical bore, double-reed woodwind instrument made in Europe from the 13th or possibly 12th century to the present day. It achieved its peak of popularity during the medieval and Renaissanc ...

harp The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers. Harps can be made and played in various ways, standing or sitting, and in orchestras or ...

, slide trumpet or clarion trumpet,

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* *, Piffaro member Greg Ingles explains the key features of the renaissance slide trumpet.
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Early instrument

Renaissance slide trumpet

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