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1858–1945 England

Francis William Galpin (25 December 1858 — 30 December 1945) was an English cleric of the Church of England, antiquarian musicologist, collector of antique musical instruments, archaeological antiquarian, naturalist, and local historian.

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That the Sackbut was the predecessor and counterpart of the Slide Trombone of the present day is a matter of common knowledge, but, when we come to unravel the origin of the name, we are landed at once into the region of wild conjecture. Some writers have wisely passed the subject over in silence; others have propounded solutions more plausible than probable.

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