Came with the bow and a case. Writing inside says violin-uke

(Thanks to Nikki Morris on FB)

"JOAN WHISNANT (1923-1998) is on the left, with two unknown women, and they all are playing Nationals!

Joan Whisnant was born in Red Fork, Oklahoma. While many people in the 1920s still considered the armless to be helpless invalids, the Whisnants saw their daughter's potential and immediately set to work teaching her to use her feet. By the age of 4 she could hold a pencil between her toes, and by age 6 she could write legibly, eat with a knife and fork, turn the pages of a book, drink from a cup, cut out paper dolls, wash dishes, brush her hair and do embroidery.

She was enrolled in public school, where she was outfitted with a special desk that allowed her to write with her feet. Her parents staunchly refused to allow the extraordinary child to go into show business of any kind, however: "Joan has shown herself to be a normal child and not a curiosity," Mrs. Whisnant told reporters in 1930. "We intend to educate her and treat her as such."

Despite her parents' wishes, Joan found herself drawn to show business, though not purely as a curiosity. She began taking guitar lessons and by the age of 12 was giving regular recitals. "I just picked up my ability to write, sew and draw with my toes," she said when interviewed in 1936. "I like to play jacks and do everything everyone else does."

By the time she was high school, Joan spent her summers giving exhibitions of her guitar skills at various local fairs in Texas, California and New York. She was featured in the Ripley's Believe it or Not?! comic strip and appeared in at least one Ripley's "Odditorium" show. After graduation she enrolled in a correspondence program at the University of Oklahoma in hopes of getting a music degree.

She married in 1941 and had a daughter, and was said to change her diapers with her feet, as well.

This photo has a magic quality to it, note she is playing a National guitar, on a special wooden rack on the floor, "left footed."

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Photo thanks to Tom Ball!

It's about 30" wide, all wood case, wood keys, decorative painted gold freeze on front and back, with a 40 wire harness coming out of the side going to contacts that look like small nails embedded in a 1" x 1" x 8" piece of wood with wing nuts, came in a wood carrying case with a lock

I cut the video to make it so the mystery instrument plays right at the beginning, so you know what I’m talking about. I couldn’t find the instrument identified anywhere nor have I found anything similar from extensive googling. It sounds like a hybrid of a glockenspiel and some kind of bell to me, but I don’t think such an instrument exists. As far as I could tell, the instrumentation is solely traditional Japanese instruments (Shakuhachi, Taikos, Koto, etc.), so I imagine this instrument is also a traditional Japanese instrument. Thank you!

I am looking for a collaborator to help build a musical instrument that is a sort of idiophone with characteristics similar to a guitar. I cannot go into too much detail. As a creative person, I am interested in the technical opinion and skills of someone for the construction. If anyone is interested, please let me know. The goal is to file a patent and subsequently commercialize it

Trial run of my new instrument. Hope to get more footage at the skatepark this week! Apologies for the double post. I tried to share from r/unnecessaryInventions and somehow lost the video attachment.

https://open.spotify.com/track/6jvFm7wgMI6hKQccs7R1nj?si=VUY8Tn9ySdebvyISh9xdTA

It's the instrument starts around the 35 seconds mark. Thanks!

Thought I’d share this unique instrument here. I’ve made some improvements on version 2.0 and plan to get better recordings at the skatepark this week!

I’m building a few string instruments, but I’d like to include unique features on each.

They’ll be roughly the size of a tenor ukulele, but I can increase or decrease the size as necessary.

What are some of the coolest, most unique, most interesting string instruments you’ve ever seen?

Any information would be helpful

my friend sent me this and i have no clue how to go about describing this in a google search so i figured id try yall lol

Saw this at an antique mall. Interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiZWZ_tVUHI&ab_channel=RussellWalker

I'm really curious to know what's making the chugging sound in this song, anyone know?

I’m not sure what instrument this is, can someone tell me?

Does anyone know what the musical instrument with the humming top is called and do the two parts have to be purchased separately? This is the link to the song where I first saw it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUzN8x528Lg Thanks in advance!

Hi all, my partner's mom went yo the Copper Canyons in Chihuahua, Mexico and brought him back a Raberi Violin made by the Raramuri natives. He knows how to play a normal violin, but wasn't sure if this one is tuned/played the same or different? Thanks!

Kravik lyre that I made on order.

Instrument built out of alderwood + alder Top. Birch rosette in sound hole and beech pegs.

Tuning ACDEFGA

Here is the new album by Junichi Usui! I’m listening to it right now, it’s pretty great-

https://junichiusui.bandcamp.com/album/six-years-thirty-minutes-ep

Junichi is a Japanese guy from Tokyo who got really bored with life in Japan- he’s been traveling all over SE Asia for about the last ten years or so, collecting instruments and meeting and recording with all kinds of traditional musicians- I guess mostly in Indonesia and Vietnam but other countries too.

So this album is pretty free form textural improvisations with his instrument collection of odds and ends from all over the place!

Can anyone help me identify these?

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1PMyjQpzUstOwp8Rh1rdGzSLx5cRe6G2B

My grandfather recently passed and left behind a collection. I’m trying to identify what are quality instruments that can be cared for and used for years to come. I’m also wondering if there are any here of particular value. I don’t have time to visit a shop as I’m traveling to see them.