🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Folk art instrument? Zodiac painting frets, Tin can body, 3- tambourine top, Spring on base like a pogo stick, with a heavy guage wire string!

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[DizzyDigger]

Folk art instrument...very cool!

 

[Almy]

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.

 

[Deftone]

Stumpf fiddle.

 

[flyadive]

Folk art instrument...very cool!

I just found out it’s called a Boombah

 

[Red-Coat]

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':

Bladder fiddle - Wikipedia

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