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[snip] The Talmud also mentions use in the Temple of a pipe organ (magrepha), and states that the water organ was not used in the Temple as its sounds were too distracting. No provable examples of the music played at the Temple have survived. However, there is an oral tradition that the tune used for Kol Nidrei was sung in the temple. [/snip]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_music#Religious_Jewish_music_in_the_biblical_period


3 posted on 09/20/2021 5:39:41 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

from the wikipedia page, “4th century AD “Mosaic of the Female Musicians” from a Byzantine villa in Maryamin, Syria.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipe_organ#/media/File:Mosaic_of_the_Female_Musicians.jpg


5 posted on 09/20/2021 5:42:24 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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