Statement Zur Lage Der Musica

Wait!
I'll tell you about the drums, now called Tympani by us, the big Herbauken, made of copper kettles and covered with calf skin, then beaten with sticks, making a loud and bright sound.
At the princes' courts, they trumpet to the field, when it pleases them to dine or when a prince rides into a city or parades or goes into the field, it's a terribly noisy affair!
All these drums, as they wish, make a lot of rough and rude noise for old people, the sick and the infirm, the devout in the monasteries who have to read, study, and pray!
And I believe and hold it true that the devil has thought of and made them, for there is no holiness or good in them, only a corruption and a suppression of all sweet melody and of all music!