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buisine

long, straight trumpet of the Middle Ages, used for military and ceremonial purposes and, later, for music. It was a six-foot- (almost two-metre-) long counterpart of the shorter trompe, a straight military trumpet, and ultimately gave rise to the later S-shaped and coiled forms of the trumpet

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