I happen to agree, but if "musical selichos" inspire others, who am I to discourage them, whatever floats your boat.
"Musical Selichos' didn't start in this generations, it was started in the Bais Hamikdash, when the Leviyim sang and played their instruments, daily.
Senior Ashkenazic rabbanim in Eretz Yisroel have signed onto a letter decrying the recent practice of shuls making “musical selichos” with singers and instruments.
Led by the Ponavez Rosh Yeshiva, Harav Hagaon Rav Gershon Edelstein, the signers of the kol koreh wrote that those who engage in musical selichos are being “poretz geder” and turn selichos from a serious reflective moment into an “evening of entertainment.”
Besides for Rav Edelstein, the letter was signed by Rav Tzvi Weber, Rav Yehuda Silman, Rav Yitzchok Mordechai Rubin, and Rav Shariel Rosenberg.
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""Musical Selichos' didn't start in this generations, it was started in the Bais Hamikdash, when the Leviyim sang and played their instruments, daily."
They sang the shir shel yom, not selichos.
So are you advocating musical instruments in Shuls, since there were instruments in the Beis Hamikdash, like Reform? Will the neo-Chasidim start putting organs in their Temples now?
Coming soon?
My short answer to you is YES!
The reason the rabbanim prohibited musical instruments in shul was because as you mentioned the Reform do it, but since the Reform hardly go shul anymore, instruments should be brought back absolutely. Yes they sang the Shir shel yom and that was because the Anshei Kneses Gedoilah had not establishe "tefilah" as we know it including Selichos. In the times of the Bais Hamikdash people didn't daven in an organized siddur or even with a minyan. Selichos was composed 1,000 years after the destruction of the Bayis Shen. Yes it's time to bring in the instruments..
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