THE Use of Musical Instruments was known before the Deluge. The Jews were acquainted with them in the time of Moses, and much more so after the Time of David. There is frequent mention made of them in the Psalms, which has put many learned Men upon enquiring, what these Instruments were, what their Form, Matter, Use, &c.
Julii Bartolocci, de Psalmis & Musicis instrumentis Hebr. Bibl. Rab. t. 2. p. 184. and his Continuator Imbonati wrote a Dissertation de Musica, which is in the same Bibliotheca, tom. 4. p. 427.
Solomonis Van Til, de Musicâ veterum Hebræorum. Belgicè*. Dort*, 1692, in 4to. See his Title.
We have likewise a Dissertation upon the Musick of the ancient Hebrews, before our Comment on the Psalms, and another upon the musical Instruments of the Hebrews, ibid.
Christiani Zoega, de buccinâ Hebræorum, 1692.
Joan. Gabriel. Dreschleri, Dissert. de Citharâ Davidicâ. Lips. 1670. in 4to. This Author was a German Lutheran.
Fortunati Sacchci, Myrothecii, l. 3. c. 35.
Augusti Pfeiffer, dubia vexata sanctæ Scripturæ, ad Psal. iv. 1.
Wagenseil, de Lusibus Hebræorum, p. 962. treats of the same Subject.
Cypriani de la Huerga, ord. Cisterciens. He died in 1560, and left a Treatise in Manuscript, entitled, De Ratione Musicæ & instrumentorum usu apud veteres Hebræos. See Imbonati, t. 5. p. 358. Bibl. Rab.
Besides these here mentioned, the Reader may see, if he pleases, what Fabricius says on this Subject in his Bibliographia, ch. 11. p. 373, 374; and Lipenius, in the 2d Tome of his Bibliotheca Philosophica.