Didn't we have a weird instruments thread? I have a bowed instrument with the label: "Fiddlette, one of the "Ette" instruments". It was made by the Gamble Hinged Music Co. in Chicago. I asked them about it but no one there recalls anything about the "Ette" instruments. This Fiddlette has a cheap violin neck and fingerboard attached to a hollowed out block of wood open to the back. This is then attached through a wood rod to a block shaped as a chin rest. The result is a real skinny fiddle kind of like the traveller's kit fiddle of old. But this one was made no earlier than the twenties from its appearance. The sound is dreadful and weak but there was no bridge for it. I modified a violin bridge for the flat surface with limited success. Perhaps there was something fancier that did the job? Does anyone recall this Fiddlette or any of the "Ette" instruments?

Rex