busine

busine

English

Noun

busine (plural busines)

1. Alternative form of buisine
   • 1911, The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information, page 974:

     The transformation of the busine (buccina) into the sackbut involved two or three processes […]

   • 1982, George B. Lane, The Trombone in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance:

     In a busine of 1460, made in the workshop of the of the Nuremberg trumpet and trombone-maker Haas, it may be observed how easily an efficient slide could be formed on its cylindrical tube, […]

   • 1991, Historic Brass Society Newsletter:

     Did you know that Roger Voisin made a recording using tenor cornetto as well as a busine? That Edward Tarr recorded on a trumpet mouthpiece, Friedemann Immer recorded a Bach cantata on the natural horn, […] ?