Ancient musical instruments.. Roman musicians performing an Epithalamium (1-3), long trumpet or tuba (4), Cupid playing a double flute or Tibiae pares (5) and Egyptian musicians playing harps and a lute-like instrument (6-10). Copperplate engraving by John Lee from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1820.