[For a household that was so pragmatic when it came to discussing murder on the farm, her housemates are surprisingly generous. It has Mio musing, even as she listens to him read the note and unwrap the parcel.]

It's definitely some kind of instrument, but nothing I've ever seen before.

[And therefore she'll be unable to caution him as to its actual cacophonous tone.] It's longer, so it probably has a heavy sound to it.