The Lyres of Ur are box lyres. Instruments of ancient Mesopotamia include harps, lyres, lutes, reed pipes, and drums. Violins, guitars, lyres, and harps are examples. The Vikings are known to have played instruments including harps, fiddles, lyres and lutes. The dance was accompanied by hand-drums (tambourines), cymbals, flutes, pipes, lyres, harps, and lutes. In hymns and temple reliefs, musicians play tambourines, harps, lyres, and sistra in Hathor's honor. Temple prophets are described in 1 Chronicles 25&colon;1 as using lyres, harps and cymbals. They danced for royalty accompanied by male musicians playing on guitars, lyres, and harps. Contemporary East African lyres and West African lutes preserve many features of Mesopotamian instruments . Percussion instruments, lyres and lutes were used by the Middle Kingdom. Percussion instruments, lyres and lutes were added to orchestras by the Middle Kingdom. Pupils usually learn to play pentatonic flutes, recorders and/or lyres in the early elementary grades. Lyres and flutes were played, among the best-known examples being the Lyres of Ur.