Change of tune pine.
pine = ping
Pining for the pings. Pinging for the pines.
It was a large harp or psaltery, ancient Greek, and it could no more play a Scarlatti sonata than it could fly to the moon.
Here is something else from the ASTRA project -- something the instrument could actually play in real life. It's a chanson by Guillaume DuFay, leader of the Burgundian School in the early Renaissance.
And it took FOUR epigonions to play that . . . .
Computer modelling can really lead you astray.
Pine is not Elm :-)