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And the Jewish kinnor was rather a harp than a lyre, and had certainly more than four strings.— The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2. (of 7): Assyria The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.
[268] The Phoenicians are supposed to have invented the kinnor, trigonon_, and several other of the most remarkable instruments of antiquity.— An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800
The name kinnor is said to have been Phoenician, a fact which points to this as the source of its derivation.— A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present
The kinnor was a small harp having from ten to twenty strings.— A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present
They were used for lamentations and for certain festivals, as in Isaiah xxx, 29: "Ye shall have a song as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the Lord, the Holy One of Israel Many of the different names of musical instruments in the common version of the Scriptures are merely blunders of the Septuagint translators, who rendered the word kinnor by about six different terms, where no distinction had been originally intended by the sacred writers Illustration: Fig.— A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present
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