At 4:06 AM -0500 7/7/10, Aaron Rabushka wrote:
Angelic horn? you mean a sackbut?
Well, in the King James translation, Gabriel plays the trumpet, but in the Luther translation he plays the "Posaune." Different unions, I guess!
Of course the Italian "trombone" does mean "a big trumpet." (The suffix "...one" means "a big one," like a provalone is a big cheese.)
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