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Hebrew: sumphoniah
a musical instrument mentioned in Dan. 3:5, 15, along with other instruments there named, as sounded before the golden image
It was not a Jewish instrument.
In the margin of the Revised King James Version, it is styled the “bag-pipe.” Luther translated it “lute,” and Grotius the “crooked trumpet.”
It is probable that it was introduced into Babylon by some Greek or Western-Asiatic musician.
Some Rabbinical commentators render it by “organ,” the well-known instrument composed of a series of pipes, others by “lyre.” The most probable interpretation is that it was a bag-pipe similar to the zampagna of Southern Europe.
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