Sounds good but guess it's just one he made himself and made up the name to go with it.
At Loanhead Music Festival every year they have a competition for making playable instruments out of recycled materials, some of which have some similarities to this.
Then the was the orchestra in S America of instruments made out of scrap metal, and there's a guy who busks in Dublin on a sort of banjo made from an old Castrol gallon oilcan