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Phono-cranks unite! Congratulations on nabbing some Woody Guthrie - you are clearly a man of character and distinction.
After the Stroh violins they made a whole bunch of other Stroh-style instruments with a horn, including ukuleles and guitars. Most of these are fantastically rare now, but the "phonofiddles" are still quite common - these are the upright, one-stringed instruments you can see towards the bottom of this page:
http://www.springersmusic.co.uk/Library/Stroviols.htm I own a few of those, and they are an enormous amount of fun. I couldn't play if my life depended on it, but they are wonderful instruments. You can see a few of them in action from these two vaudevillians, Bennett and Williams:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axzLEzasYUA