Horn (instrument) a mixture of the two, is called a horn section in these contexts. Variations include: As the name indicates, people originally used to blow on the actual horns of animals before starting to emulate them in metal or other materials. This original usage survives in the shofar (), a ram's horn, which plays an important role in Jewish religious rituals. The genus of animal-horn instruments to which the shofar belongs is called ("keren") in Hebrew, "qarnu" in Akkadian, and ("keras") in Greek. The "olifant" or "oliphant" (an abbreviation of the French "cor d'olifant"/"oliphant", "elephant horn") was the name applied in
Nevel (instrument) English as psaltery or viol, and the Book of Common Prayer renders it lute.. The word "nevel" has been adopted for “harp” in modern Hebrew. Nevel (instrument) The nevel or nebel ( "nêḇel") was a stringed instrument used by the ancient Hebrew people. The Greeks translated the name as "nabla" (νάβλα, “Phoenician harp”). A number of possibilities have been proposed for what kind of instrument the "nevel" was; these include the psaltery, and the kithara, both of which are strummed instruments like the kinnor, with strings running across the sound box, like the modern guitar and zither. Most scholars believe