Well I'm having a great time among the "traveling fiddles". Pochettes, kits, cane fiddles. Philadelphia was one of the places it was all happening during the period I'm looking at. Haven't actually come up with an answer yet. Some small fiddles, of the period, are shaped rather like canoes, but I haven't found one actually called that.
Trying to put together -- canoe, fiddle, pochette, cane, Philadelphia -- and come up with a clever term.
Cheers, Joy