I’m posting this for anybody who listens to this week’s episode (Wed 9th 2024) of BEDTIME STORIES WITH R.A. SPRATT. It’s a picture of an urn from Ancient Greece, that depicts Hermes playing his home-made lyre. Because there was a skin stretched across the tortoise shell (as described by Homer, and that’s the Ancient Greek poet, not the character from the Simpsons) I maintain that this “lyre” is the world’s first banjo.