I'm a fairly new Mudcatter and I don't know if this thread has come up before, but I was wondering if there are any other collectors/players of unusual musical instruments out there. When I first started going to folk activities around 1970, dulcimers, both hammered and fretted were considered rare in my locale. I own and play, among other things, a bowed psaltry and a pianolin. (The pianolin was made by the Marxochime Colony Instruments Co. of New Troy, Michigan.)