The rabbinical records mention thirty-six musical instruments in use among the ancient Hebrews, while the Bible contains references to about half that number. As has been said, the names of these instruments have never been exactly identified and it is possible that several different names may refer to the same instrument. The Hebrews almost certainly possessed the harp, though we do not know what they called it. The _psanterin_, mentioned in Daniel, was perhaps a dulcimer. The Arab dulcimer of the present day is called _santir_. We may assume from the representation of the lyre on the coins of the high-priest Simon Maccabæus that the Hebrews employed that instrument, and it may have been the _kinnor_ of King David. The _minnim_, _machalath_, and _nebel_ were perhaps instruments of the guitar or lute type. The _chalil_ and _nekeb_ were names of pipes or flutes, while the _mishrokitha_, mentioned in Daniel, is supposed to have been a double pipe. It is likely that the _ugab_, which is translated as 'organ’ in the English authorized version of the Bible, was the syrinx or Pandean pipes. Forkel and other historians are of the opinion that the _sumphonia_, mentioned in Daniel, was a bagpipe, basing their conclusion apparently on the fact that the Italian peasants call the bagpipe _zampogna_. The _magrepha_ was probably also a sort of bagpipe. Three kinds of trumpets were used by the ancient Hebrews--the _keven_, _shophar_, and _chatzozerah_. The last-named was a straight trumpet, about two feet long, and was sometimes made of silver; the others were curved trumpets probably made of horn. The _shophar_ is still found in Jewish synagogues. Presumably the Hebrews used a number of drums. Of these we know only the _toph_, which has been translated timbrel or tabret, and was probably a sort of tambourine. There still exists in the East a small hand-drum, called by the Arabs _doff_ or _adufe_. According to Saalschütz and other historians, the _menaaneim_, referred to in Samuel, and translated cymbals, was the sistrum.[22] The _tzeltzelim_, _metzilloth_, and _metzilthaim_ may have been cymbals. The _phaamon_ (Exod. xxxviii and xxxix) were little bells on the robe of a priest, and we still find them in Jewish synagogues attached to the 'rolls of law’ containing the Pentateuch.