Psalms 81:2

2. Take a psalm Bring a song: addressed to the Levites appointed for choristers, as the “shout aloud,” (Psalms 81:1,) was to the people.

Bring… the timbrel Hebrew, ת Š, ( toph,) also translated tabret; a sort of hand drum, as the tambourine. It was much used in public festivities and triumphal processions, as a bass accompaniment, and often played by women. Psalms 68:25; Nahum 2:7.

Harp כנור , ( kinnor,) the favourite national stringed instrument of the Hebrews, here called “the pleasant harp,” used much on occasions of joyfulness and praise, though not unsuited to meditative or solemn strains. See Psalms 92:3. It had ten, sometimes twenty-four, and even forty-seven strings. Its general shape was triangular, like the modern harp, with a rounded or arched rim at its broadest end, from which last circumstance Furst supposes it derived its name, rather than from its stridulous sound, as Gesenius thinks.

Psaltery Another harplike stringed instrument, made to accompany the voice. In Psalms 33:2, (which see,) it is translated, “an instrument of ten strings,” literally, the ten-stringed psaltery.