a pneumatic instrument of music among the ancient Hebrews, composed of pipes of various sizes, fitted into a kind of wooden chest, open at the top, and stopped at the bottom with wood covered with a skin. Wind was conveyed to it from the lips, by means of a pipe fixed to the chest; the pipes were of lengths musically proportioned to each other, and the melody was varied at pleasure, by stopping and unstoping with the fingers the apertures at the upper extremity. See Plate CCLXXIX.