te capital, is said in the Hebrew historical writings to have been a harpist, he is often used as the archetype of the musician in medieval art. Three examples of this are shown in Figure 2 (consisting of plates 37-39g from Harrison and Rimmer, 1964), where David is represented as a shepherd boy playing the syrinx (an illustration in an eleventh-century psalter in the Ivrea Cathedral library)), as a member of a quintet consisting of a lyre, a fretted lute, an organ, and two percussion instruments (from the same psalter), and as playing on a bowed and fingered lyre (an illustration from MS. Lat. 1118, dating to about the year 1100, in the Paris National Library). Panels 39b-g show other musicians playing a trumpet, clappers, a syrinx, single and double reed pipes, a square and a triangular psaltery, and a small horn. Since these illustrations are placed next to examples of melodies in the Gregorian mode, it seems plausible that these represent instruments that accompanied the new music called orga
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