The fanfare is to sound from a collection of both wind and stringed instruments. Of the six instruments named here, only the first, horn, occurs also in the Hebrew of the Old Testament. Pipe is difficult to identify for lack of evidence, the only clue being a possible connection with the Hebrew, “to hiss”, hence “whistle”. Lyre is either a loan-word from the Greek kithara, or together with the Greek it is borrowed from a common ancestor. Trigon also seems to be a foreign word of unknown source. The translation trigon is arrived at from the Greek word used to translate it in the Septuagint, which means a triangular harp. Harp is generally agreed to be another stringed instrument of triangular shape, the Greek psalterion. The last word in the list, bagpipe, may not be a musical instrument at all, but may rather signify “in unison”. Alternatively it has been argued that a percussion instrument may be intended.
In view of the tentative state of present knowledge of these words it is precarious to base any theory of the date of the book on the evidence of these instruments