Ancient Hebrew musical instruments

thumb|322x322px|Young kitharode|kithara player, in costume, by the Goluchow painter; Athens, The kithara (), Latinized as cithara, was an ancient Greek musical instrument in the yoke lutes family. It was a seven-stringed professional version of the lyre, which was regarded as a rustic, or folk instrument, appropriate for teaching music to beginners. As opposed to the simpler lyre, the cithara was primarily used by professional musicians, called kitharodes. In modern Greek, the word kithara has come to mean "guitar"; etymologically, the word guitar derives from kithara.

thumbnail|Shofar thumbnail|Shofar thumbnail|Blowing the shofar A shofar ( ; from , ) is an ancient musical horn, typically a ram's horn, used for Jewish ritual purposes. Like the modern bugle, the shofar lacks pitch-altering devices, with all pitch control done by the player's varying their embouchure. The shofar is blown in synagogue services on Rosh Hashanah and at the end of Yom Kippur; it is also blown every weekday morning in the month of Elul running up to Rosh Hashanah. Shofars come in a variety of sizes and shapes, depending on the choice of animal and level of finish.

See Rotte (psaltery) for medieval harp psaltery & Ancient Greek harps for earlier psalterion

Kinnor ( kīnnōr) is an ancient Israelite musical instrument in the yoke lutes family, the first one to be mentioned in the Hebrew Bible.

musical instrument

thumb|200px|Line drawing labeled Asor Assyrien (Assyria|Assyrian Asor). This is a representation of a horizontal [[angular harp. From the 1884 book Histoire de la musique by Henri Marie Lavoix (1846–1897).]]