sentences:  The Saracens, whose long metal trumpets greatly impressed the Christian armies at the time of the Crusades, were ultimately responsible for reintroducing the instrument to Europe after a lapse of six hundred years.During the last centuries of the Roman Empire the name "buccina" was widely used throughout the Near East to denote a particular type of straight trumpet similar to, and probably derived from, the Roman tuba.From this, undoubtedly, derives the generic term "būq", which first occurs after 800; this was the name used by the Arabs to describe a variety of both trumpet-like and horn-like instruments.