sambuca

Cymbals, trumpets and organs (familiar Old Testament vocabulary) appear conventionally enough as cymballe, trwmpedau and organau, but the more obscure psaltria, trigona, and sambucae (psalteries, trigons and sambucae: three types of Greek harp) become psalteris, kornets, shalmes, [a] dulcimus in translation (Chapter Six, paragraph 7); cornets and shawns are, of course, wind instruments.

Marcellus had prepared, at great expense, machines called ſambucae, from their reſemblance to a muſical inſtrument of that name.[…]“Shall we perſiſt,” ſaid he to his workmen and engineers, “in making war with this Briareus of a geometrician, who treats my gallies and ſambucae ſo rudely? He infinitely exceeds the fabled giants with their hundred hands, in his perpetual and ſurpriſing diſcharges upon us.”