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What are the first instruments mentioned in the Bible?

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The first instruments mentioned in the Bible are the kinnor, evidently a lyre similar to the kithara , and the ugab, possibly a vertical flute. Other instruments, more of ceremonial than of musical value, included the hasosra, a trumpet, and the shofar, a ram's or goat's horn, the least musical of all and the only one still in use.

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