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Weird Violin
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Someone posted it in a facebook group and no one knows what it is.

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I saw one of those in the net, but cannot remember what it was. Now I have to see if I can find it again. I suspect you know, and want to know if we know.

I am thinking an electric violin, but I am not positive. I have to find it again.

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Wait, before I look for it, is it one of those portable electric violins? Wireless? Maybe uses a bluetooth signal, or battery pack? Didn’t pay a lot of attention to that photo I saw a while back because I was looking for something else.

Thinking outside the box here. Has to be something odd, or @Leaviathan would not be asking. 

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I have no idea what it is 

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roflol I guess your guess is as good as anyone’s? I have to get dinner. 

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A harmonic destabilizer for generating 2nd order resonant frequencies.  Its missing the bearings so probably no good.  Lol

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Greg, your new name is Cdr Data

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GregW said
A harmonic destabilizer for generating 2nd order resonant frequencies.  Its missing the bearings so probably no good.  Lol

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I googled that and nothing came up 🙂

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Haha..I'm with the rest of you..have no idea.  Please excuse my humor.

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Geeze, @ABitRusty I am trying to fix dinner and I had to stop and try to find out what it was you just said! LOL I couldn’t figure out why anything like that would ever come up mixed in with any search I did. I had to go look it up. Only found sound wave chart thingies. I bet my water is burning now! Oh, that would be a boil. I can put my pasta in! 

That was pretty funny. Got us both.

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Some type of dulcimer?

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Found it, it's a Fiskars electric violin, the one above is missing the wire body

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Too funny! Hey, electric violin was one of my guesses. Wasn’t sure if there was more photo to it.

Glad you solved your little mystery. 

I think the photo I saw was similar, but was a dulcimer.

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it uses guitar tuners for the bridge, I wonder how you intonate it

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Looks like dials on the side.

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But there's no way to slide the saddle, every aspect of it is fixed, besides the tuners

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I don’t know Leaviation. You might have to buy it to find out 😂

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My guess was a hammer or electric violin. 😜

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