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But the overwhelming consensus of the church has been that these instruments were an integral part of that ceremonial worship fulfilled and abrogated in Christ.  We sing in the Psalms of the hyssop (51:7), the altar (43:4), the sack-cloth (69:11), the evening sacrifice (141:2), the goats and bulls (66:15), the cherubim (80:1), the ark (132:8) and the new moon (81:3).  No one applies these with a wooden literalism to the church today.  On what grounds, then, can we place the musical instruments of the temple in a different category than other ceremonial elements?

Old Light on New Worship, John Price, page 8