Hieroglyphics record that spontaneous music making was common among the ancient Egyptians on all important occasions, religious and secular, Ancient Egyptian Music was both Instrumental and Vocal.
The first instruments mentioned are the kinnor, evidently a lyre similar to the kithara, and the ugab, a vertical flute. Other instruments, more of ceremonial than of musical value, included the hasosra, a trumpet, and the shofar, a ram's or goat's horn, the least musical of all and the only one still in use.
Egyptian Musical Instruments ... Direct from Egypt
