'Played' in the Bible

and say, ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.’

They are like children who sit in the market place and call to one another, and they say, ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not weep.’

Yet even lifeless things, either flute or harp, in producing a sound, if they do not produce a distinction in the tones, how will it be known what is played on the flute or on the harp?