... He actually did not know the name of the instrument she had been previously playing. There might have been a time when he did (maybe), but that part of him is long gone along with most of those memories so who's to say really. He never really cared about such things back then and cares even less now.

But that's hardly the point.

To answer her question ...

"The song," he says while shifting to hold the squirming creature out towards her which is now probably trying to bite him instead.