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Spurgeon comments on Ps. 42:1,

David appears to have had a peculiarly tender remembrance of the singing of the pilgrims, and assuredly it is the most delightful part of worship and that which comes nearest to the adoration of heaven.  What a degradation to supplant the intelligent song of the whole congregation by the theatrical prettinesses of a quartette, the refined niceties of a choir, or the blowing off of wind from inanimate bellows and pipes!  We might as well pray by machinery as praise by it. – Charles Surgeon, The Treasury of David, Volume 1, Part 2, pages 272

Old Light on New Worship, John Price, page 137