Please help me identify this (non-musical) instrument

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It is a giant, maybe 3 meter tall or more, bowed single string violin that was used as a kind of a fog horn to warn ships at sea of rocky outcrops. Probably from the 1500s or 1600s. It looked rather roughly built of wood.

For some reason the name "nun's horn" stuck in my mind. Maybe Danish. I swear I saw one in the Metropolitan Museum's musical instrument collection decades back, but after hours of Googling on both words and images, I am no closer to any answer. I did see the Octabass, which is allegedly the largest string instrument in the world and very cool in its own right.

Maybe I'm confabulating a memory. Maybe it's too idiosyncratic or one-of-a-kind to document. Maybe I'm just senile.

The Met's musical instrument's collection is closed for the forseeable future for restoration and re-curation, so it's a dead end.

However, let me offer you this very fine armadillo banjo picture in thanks. I KNOW I saw it in the same gallery. Image

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