The pipe, Tabret, and harp were associated so intimately with the sensuous heathen cults, as well as with the wild revelries and shameless performances of the degenerate theatre and circus, that it is easy to understand the prejudice against their use in the Christian worship.
"The Story of Our Hymns"
Ernest Edwin Ryden
Not only singers, but the modern equivalent of psaltery and Tabret and cymbals, all have their place in Dr. Conwell's scheme of church service; for there may be a piano, and there may even be a trombone, and there is a great organ to help the voices, and at times there are chiming bells.
"Acres of Diamonds"
Russell H. Conwell
Thither therefore they came in their robes, and their Tabret went before them.
"The Works of John Bunyan Volume 3"
John Bunyan