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Do you have a favorite musical instrument?

Maybe you enjoy the thumping sound of the drums or the sweet strings of the violin.

In today's story, we'll hear about an instrument that captivates everyone who hears it, whether

they have skin or scales, hair or hides, feathers or fins.

I'm Rebecca Sheer and welcome to Circle Round, where story time happens all the time.

Today our story is called Ariana's Music.

Versions of this tale go back to ancient Greece.

Some really great people came together to renew our telling of this folktale, including

Mirei Enos, the golden globe nominated star of the killing on AMC, Hannah and Good Omen's

on Amazon Prime and World War Z.

So Circle Round everyone for Ariana's Music.

In the ancient Greek city of Corinth, there lived a musician named Ariana.

Ariana played a handheld stringed instrument called the Kithara.

But when Ariana made music, she didn't just pluck the strings on the Kithara's wooden

body.

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