(warning, still clearing out the old jokes file)
There was a man who bought a second-hand oud but the neck was broken, he looked everywhere for suitable wood, but this being in an oasis, there was little to be found. Then the cook said: "I have an old pan with a hole in it, the wooden handle might just fit." He tried it , it wasn't bad but the only tune he could get out of it was...(wait for it, though it isn;'t worth the wait...)
The Oud Panhandle
RtS (Digging myself a hole in the sand...)