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!

looks kind of like a prehistoric banjo!!!

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'

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".

thanks for the history lesson.

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

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

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

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

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

Thats what I was thinking....

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?

I think thats a Tanpura.

Here is a Link.

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

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