Rif Rosh HaShana 10b {Rosh haShana 34a continues}

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10b

{Rosh haShana 34a continues}
What is your will {mah nafshach}? If a protracted groan {is meant by yevava = teruah} then a teruah should be made and a shevarim should not be made. If it means a "short wail," then a shevarim should be made and a teruah should not be made! {Answer:} It was a doubt to him whether it was a short wail or a protracted groan.
Rav Avira objected: And perhaps it was a short wail and the terua comes and separates between the tekia {at the end} and the three shevarim!
Thereupon he {R' Avira} made another set - a tekiah, three shevarim, and a tekia.
Ravina objected: And perhaps it was a protracted groan, and the shevarim come and separate between the tekia and the teruah!
Thereupon he {Ravina} made another set - a tekiah, a teruah, and a tekiah.

If so, that of Rabbi Abahu, why do I need? Perhaps it was first a short wail and then a protracted groan.

If so, the reverse also! Perhaps it was a protracted groan followed by a short wail?
The standard person, when a bad thing happens to him, first wails and then groans.

Thus it is now the case that we blow tekiah shevarim teruah tekiah three times, and we blow tekiah shevarim tekiah three times, and we blow tekiah teruah tekiah three times.

And the nation is accustomed to blow them while they are seated and bless upon them the bracha of blowing; and because the congregation are required to hear the tekiot on the order of the blessings {of Malchuyot, Zichronot and Shofarot}, we therefore repeat and blow on the order of the blessings tekiah shevarim teruah tekiah one time, and tekiah shevarim tekiah one time, and tekiah teruah tekiah one time.

And it is logical that they should blow them on the order of the blessings like the order that they blew while seated {that is, tashrat tashat tarat by Malchuyot, tashrat tashat tarat by Zichronot, and tashrat tashat tarat by Shofarot}; however, since the blessings