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    Quote Originally Posted by Tobin View Post
    ... has 5-on-a-plate tuners, but only 4 visible tuning posts ...
    Looking carefully, I suspect that it's really a 4-on-a-plate tuner plus a cobbled-up single for that top tuner. Its plate edge doesn't quite align with the lower four, plus there's an "orphan" backplate screw wedged into a corner rather than on center & aligned w/ the tuning posts and other screws. Not that THAT helps solve the mystery!
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    If you squint, it looks a little like a charango, which also uses re-entrant tuning...
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    Quote Originally Posted by sloanypal View Post
    If you squint, it looks a little like a charango, which also uses re-entrant tuning...
    I think that's it. Banjo head charango

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    Quote Originally Posted by David Lewis View Post
    I suspect it is a failed sort of parlor instrument: it's a mix of everything, isn't it: banjo, guitar, mandolin, violin (check out the scroll on the headstock).

    A part of me wants to suggest it European, but US makes a lot of sense. or even South American...


    Lovely, lovely instrument though.
    so you nailed it down to europe south america or america? that rules out canada africa and asia, and even antartica!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by ollaimh View Post
    so you nailed it down to europe south america or america? that rules out canada africa and asia, and even antartica!!
    or . . . maybe it was brought to earth by alien life from another planet? That thing just might be the equivalent of a Loar-signed F-5 on the unknown planet of Nosbig.

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    Mandosquash. Winter variety...

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    Mandosquash. Winter variety...
    no no no it's obviously a mando-summer squash!!

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    Still listed on Reverb but at a lower price — you can also make an offer. Knock yourselves out!
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    I posted a link over at Greif's Music Store who occasionally gets oddities. One replied: "We have NO idea. Haha. It has five strings, but not set up like a standard 5-string banjo. It looks like it has classical strings, too."
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    Whatever it is--I'd like to try it out...
    Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?

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    Judging by the ten (or nine) strings, and the guitar shape, I think it is a combination of a banjo and a tiple, aka a "bipple".
    When 'good enough' is more than adequate.

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    From Reverb:

    This listing sold on 12/30/2017

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    Not me. I got a waldzither.
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