For anyone who thought the Scheitholt looked a bit too complicated... This is a monochord, the simplest imaginable zither. Dad built that a few years ago.

I didn't even know about its existence because it was in Dad's collection of obscure homemade musical instruments. (He said it was stored "right next to his selfmade xylophone", which is an instrument I don't touch. Ever.) Maybe, at some point, we should make a proper inventary within the family, considering I own some instruments that surprised Dad, and clearly, he didn't always inform me about his crafting projects... LOL. (Granted, we own a sh*tload of questionable instruments, most of which aren't considered instruments by civilized people in the first place, so, it's hard to keep track...)

I didn't even know about its existence because it was in Dad's collection of obscure homemade musical instruments. (He said it was stored "right next to his selfmade xylophone", which is an instrument I don't touch. Ever.) Maybe, at some point, we should make a proper inventary within the family, considering I own some instruments that surprised Dad, and clearly, he didn't always inform me about his crafting projects... LOL. (Granted, we own a sh*tload of questionable instruments, most of which aren't considered instruments by civilized people in the first place, so, it's hard to keep track...)