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In 1889, Dabney wrote,

Christ and his apostles ordained the musical worship of the New Dispensation without any sort of musical instrument, enjoining only the singing with the voice of psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs.  Hence such instruments are excluded from Christian worship.  Such has been the creed of all churches, and in all ages, except of the Popish communion after it had reached the nadir of its corruption at the end of the thirteenth century, and it prelatic imitators. – Robert L. Dabney, Presbyterian Quarterly, July 1889

Old Light on New Worship, John Price, page 139