The Gopichand (aka Ektara) A Just-Dying-To-Be-Modified DIY Instrument?

[Hank The Curmudgeon]

This is what it is, how its played and what it sounds like: http://youtu.be/UWxajijf_4c
Background: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ektara
A 'modern' version: http://youtu.be/UIC4ONM547I
A  DIY one: http://youtu.be/PAyCK-UTykc

I wonder what modern building materials and effects processing could lead to? Motorized string plucking? A bow? A tablespoon of BB's inside the sounding diaphram? Piezo pickups...
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