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DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT THIS INSTRUMENT IS?    20:19 on Wednesday, October 18, 2006 Vote for this post Vote against this post 0 votes

jltc008
(14 points)

I recently saw this in a store, but I can't find the name of it. Only this picture.

http://www.oldfloridamuseum.com/Catalog/images/catalog/l776.jpg

Please respond if you have any idea!

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Re: DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT THIS INSTRUMENT IS?    13:19 on Thursday, October 19, 2006 Vote for this post Vote against this post 0 votes

mdey2010
(18 points)

looks kind of like a prehistoric banjo!!!


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Re: DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT THIS INSTRUMENT IS?    18:12 on Friday, October 20, 2006 Vote for this post Vote against this post 0 votes

blazinsun59
(2 points)

I looked , don't have a clue for you....but it does seem sorta' familiar???????
I spent a few yrs. with an oil company in Saudi Arabia in the late 60's... I think I might have seen something like that.. ?
Sorry I'm no help.... I am interested if you find out anything tho'


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Re: DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT THIS INSTRUMENT IS?    18:00 on Friday, November 03, 2006 Vote for this post Vote against this post 0 votes

seattleboy
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It looks like a homemade Shamisen, A Japanese Instrument with three or four strings (three being more common). During WW2, when materials and craftsmen were in short supply many were Home-Built; I have one that was made by a student in an internment camp in Idaho during the war. Many were made of "recycled" materials, and are often mistakenly listed as "antique".

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Re: DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT THIS INSTRUMENT IS?    20:54 on Saturday, November 25, 2006 Vote for this post Vote against this post 0 votes

almost_home
(11 points)

thanks for the history lesson.

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Re: DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT THIS INSTRUMENT IS?    07:00 on Monday, December 11, 2006 Vote for this post Vote against this post 0 votes

riffz
(9 points)

It looks like a homemade Shamisen, A Japanese Instrument with three or four strings (three being more common). During WW2, when materials and craftsmen were in short supply many were Home-Built; I have one that was made by a student in an internment camp in Idaho during the war. Many were made of "recycled" materials, and are often mistakenly listed as "antique".

Yeah, its definitely a beat-up shamisen

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Re: DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT THIS INSTRUMENT IS?    19:50 on Saturday, January 13, 2007 Vote for this post Vote against this post 0 votes

galaxius
(14 points)

I wanna say that it's a Sitar but i don't really have anything to base that on so.....yeah

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Re: DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT THIS INSTRUMENT IS?    23:24 on Saturday, January 13, 2007 Vote for this post Vote against this post 0 votes

jltc008
(14 points)

No, it's not a sitar. I play sitar. I think it's Kenyan.

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Re: DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT THIS INSTRUMENT IS?    12:10 on Saturday, January 20, 2007 Vote for this post Vote against this post 0 votes

flutes-4ever
(183 points)

I believe it is an Native American guitar thing.It looks like it ahs five strings.It could be....

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Re: DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT THIS INSTRUMENT IS?    22:00 on Sunday, January 28, 2007 Vote for this post Vote against this post 0 votes

ComplxMind
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Possibly a mandolin considering the website was from a Florida museum.

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Re: DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT THIS INSTRUMENT IS?    07:50 on Monday, January 29, 2007 Vote for this post Vote against this post 0 votes

flutes-4ever
(183 points)

Thats what I was thinking....

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Re: DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT THIS INSTRUMENT IS?    21:22 on Monday, January 29, 2007 Vote for this post Vote against this post 0 votes

ComplxMind
(6 points)

Whatever it is...I wish I had one hanging on my wall. That would really set a mood, wouldln't it?

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Whatever it is...I wish I had one hanging on my wall. That would really set a mood, wouldn't it?

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Re: DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT THIS INSTRUMENT IS?    00:38 on Thursday, February 08, 2007 Vote for this post Vote against this post 0 votes

theholytaco
(175 points)

I think thats a Tanpura.

Here is a Link.

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   14:56 on Friday, February 09, 2007 Vote for this post Vote against this post 0 votes

jltc008
(14 points)

Not a tanpura. I play that too. This is much smaller. Handheld.

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Re: DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT THIS INSTRUMENT IS?    08:59 on Saturday, February 17, 2007 Vote for this post Vote against this post 0 votes

hannah_the_celli
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I don't know but I think it's funny looking. Like a walrus.

   

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