sentences:  After the fall of the Western Empire in 476, the trumpet disappeared from Europe for more than half a millennium.Elsewhere the art of bending long metal tubes was lost, for the trumpets of the succeeding era lacked the characteristic G-like curve of the "cornu" and "buccina".The straight-tubed Roman "tuba", however, continued to flourish in the Middle East among the Sassanids and their Arabic successors.