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🔎 UNIDENTIFIEDFolk art instrument? Zodiac painting frets, Tin can body, 3- tambourine top, Spring on base like a pogo stick, with a heavy guage wire string!
Nokta FoRs Gold, a Gold Cube, 2 Keene Sluices and Lord only knows how many pans....not to mention a load of other gear my wife still doesn't know about!
Somebody with a sense of humour had fun with that, I bet. Not that the frets are equal distance between so it was never a fretted instrument. (Fretted instruments have the frets closer and closer together as they go towards the body). But with one string and ignoring the frets probably a tune could be played on it. The screws with the small pulleys on them probably are rattles for playing rhythm.
Very cool. It has multiple names including stumpf fiddle and boomba, but it's derived from what was often originally known as a 'bladder fiddle'. Lots of variations in string and percussive functions too, since they're usually 'home-made':