If you haven't heard this instrument before, don't panic, you're not alone.

It hadn't been played in public for more than 2,000 years until very recently. It's being revived in a production of one of the oldest plays in existence, Aeschylus' The Suppliant Women, at the Young Vic theatre in London.

Let piper Callum Armstrong play you a tune.

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