Caoimhin MacAoidh in Ballyshannon, Co Donegal might help you with this. He runs fiddle workshops so might have a website. founder of Cairde na bFidleoirí. There's a recording of Donegal music called "The Brass Fiddle"
In a musical instrument museum in Norway (Trondheim??)I saw a fiddle made from matchsticks, but I didn't hear it played.