Rattlesnake rattles sound best inside a fiddle. They'll really "sing" then. I once had some with 13 rattles in my long-ago-stolen Gibson. I hope the SOB got bitten by the snake spirit.

My beat-up old Guild has picks, the pick guard (which popped off some time back and hasn't been glued back on) and an orange spiral thingie put in by a small friend.

~;o) Mary