Lyre

As soon as they had had enough to eat and drink they wanted music and dancing, which are the crowning embellishments of a banquet, so a servant brought a lyre to Phemios, whom they compelled perforce to sing to them.

Then Phemios took his lyre and set them all longing for sweet song and stately dance.

For it is through the Muses and Apollo that there are singers upon the earth and players upon the lyre;

And he took the hollow lyre and laid it in his sacred cradle, and sprang from the sweet-smelling hall to a watch-place, pondering sheer trickery in his heart —deeds such as knavish folk pursue in the dark night-time;

Then the son of Maia, harping sweetly upon his lyre, took courage and stood at the left hand of Phoebus Apollo;

The son of Maia received it joyfully, while the glorious son of Leto, the lord far-working Apollo, took the lyre upon his left arm and tried each string with the key.

for she loves archery and the slaying of wild beasts in the mountains, the lyre also and dancing and thrilling cries and shady woods and the cities of upright men.

All the others were following the herds over the grassy pastures, and he, left quite alone in the homestead, was roaming hither and thither and playing thrillingly upon the lyre.

It’s a box full of pleasure that he made in just one day from a dead animal he found, and he’s down there shaking it.

unspeakable child of a cow amazed prey speaking voice to make such sounds from a dead animal.

Since the player is in fact Hermes, it sounds divine, but no mortal has ever heard this instrument before, and the satyrs are terrified.