Editing Primitive Baptists (section)

===A cappella singing===
Primitive Baptists generally do not play musical instruments as part of their worship services.{{Sfn | Crowley | 1998 | p = [https://books.google.com/books?id=6TTtLEXwYCUC&pg=PA10 10]}}  They believe that all church music should be [[a cappella]] because there is no [[New Testament]] command to play instruments, but only to sing.<ref name="Dove">{{cite book|title=The Sound of the Dove: Singing in Appalachian Primitive Baptist Churches |pages=11–14|year=2001|first=Beverly Bush |last=Patterson|isbn=0-252-07003-8|publisher= University of Illinois Press | url= https://books.google.com/books?id=MTfLKPG6i3AC&pg=PA11}}</ref> They are noted for their [[Singing school|singing schools]] and [[Shape note|shape note singing]]. Further, they connect musical instruments in the [[Old Testament]] with "many forms and customs, many [[Typology (theology)|types]] and shadows, many priests with priestly robes, many sacrifices, festivals, tithings" that they see as having been abolished; "had they been needed in the church Christ would have brought them over".<ref name = "Dove" />

African-American Primitive Baptists may not share the general Primitive Baptist opposition to musical instruments, however.<ref name = "McGregory">{{cite book | title = Downhome Gospel: African American Spiritual Activism in Wiregrass Country | page = 55 | year = 2010 | first = Jerrilyn  |last=McGregory|isbn=978-1-60473-782-0|publisher=University Press of Mississippi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rBdvHxhdVhoC&pg=PA55}}</ref>