The trombone was nearly ubiquitous by the late Renassance, but it only participated regularly in one ensemble (a band off four to six loud instruments consisting either of cornetts or shawms and trombones). The seventeenth century saw long wars in England and Germany and a devastating plague in Italy. Once these countries recovered from these disasters, the old loud band had lost favor. The French royal court, which had never entrusted its loud band with artistically significant music, replaces it with an ensemble of oboes and bassoons in the 1670s. By the end of the century, every court in Europe except the Imperial court in Vienna and its immediate sphere of influence, had updated to the new French oboe band. The traditional cornett/trombone band survived in some towns, but only in Italy, Germany, and Austria.