How many Folk instrument players using Sonar

Ha, Now this title allows me to post here in the main forum. I used the word Sonar :) 
In a search for information about an instrument I just bought, I find very little about folks instruments. A Google search for "Folk Instrument Forums" comes up with sites with possibly 2 posts in the last year? Most have not seen action in 3 years.  I got optimistic about Harmony Central but that site is also lacking viewers on most of the sub forums.. The Folk sub form is dated last post 2015.  We are spoiled here with a very active forum. 
 
Any how,  how many of you play folk instruments and make recordings with good old Sonar?? 
 
I put this in Hardware but think I need more eyes on it so therefore I'm going to try here. 
 
ANybody have any clue to what this might be called or where it might originate?? 
Bought it at Goodwill for $15.99. Re strung with top 4 strings from an Acoustic and it plays just fine,, intonation is a little off but sounds cool in open tuning. I'm using C_G_C_E   right now. I show it with my Ukulele because people keep telling me that's what it is,, but that's way off.. It's steel string and a 495mm / 19.5" scale length  ukes are 14.5. Head stock looks very Russian/ Ukrainian/ Turkish to me. Closest I can find is called a Domra which are normally 3 string but 4 strings do exist. 
 

 
 
 

Another folk/bluegrass player here as well. Have a guitar and mandolin, as well as a mountain dulcimer and autoharp. Also started messing around with some Irish tin whistles and low whistle. Got a bodhran drum but haven't had much time to mess with it. 

Hey thanks folks ( ha ha) So far I'm stumping even some experts. One with a PHD in Ethnomusicology!! 
Still waiting for an answer from the Musical Instrument Museum in Scottsdale AZ. 
 
Ya MacFurse  I want a Bass Uke too,, they are amazing. I didn't think it would work.. 
 

Johnny, I have seen some weird ones over my 53 years of (guitardom) "what's that?!? and what does it sound like!?!?"
   Don't have any clue to yours, however I look forward to "hearing" the answer! And in the meantime am having fun making up names for it, like bala-ukolin, etc.
   I don't really play bluegrass, but enjoy hearing it, have gigged it some, and enjoy learning fiddle tunes. But that hasn't stopped me from dabbling in banjo, fiddle, mandolin and dobro (my Baby Taylor Mah is set up as a dobro at the moment with a Perfect Nut, but it is "moving" to my high strung, soon). I see them all as "castable characters" in my productions and marvelous amusements in general. They fit right in with my acoustic and electric baritones, electric mando strat, bass, and various acoustics(Martin, Taylor and Epi) and electric guitars (Strats, Tele, Italia Rimini 12 (which is the best one I owned so far!), semi and full hollow bodies, and an Epi LP Std Plus, that's modded and marvelous!
   If I had more room (when ! LOL), I'd be shopping for a bodhran, a real dobro, any string family goodies, and a pedal steel to go with my 2 lap steels (E with Duesenberg MultiBender and C6th). I might also get to play my harmonicas more without getting the dog and cats "chiming in" ! LOL Then there's mallets and perc and a Wurly to go with my K2500 and Virus Ti2....... oh yeah and a C3 with Leslie.... and modular synths!
 
   I guess my long winded point is, we love sounds and therefore instruments! All of them! And I am thrilled I got introduced to Cakewalk years ago, and saw the immediate value in "heading that way".
So, my name is Michael and I, too, play/collect/use folk music instruments! LOL
Michael
 

There you go...... a bala bolshe uke vik!
 

Well, the scale length is short enough to comfortably play chords in "5th's" tuning(vs 4ths). I recently tried an Ibanez tenor guitar in 5ths and felt the scale length was too long for that, for me/my hands, anyway. http://www.ibanez.com/products/u_ag_page15.php?year=2015&cat_id=3&series_id=83&data_id=9&color=CL01
That is a 580mm or 22.8346".
I used to have a really nice '50s Harmony tenor TG1201 and would like to replace it. I just looked that up and it was 23" scale and "came" tuned in 5ths.
http://harmony.demont.net/model.php?id=25
 
Czech, Hungarian, Greek or "from that region, was what I initially thought, too.
 
PS    As I looked through that Harmony link, I discovered mine had to be early '60s at the oldest.

Here's a sample recording I did on my DR 40 I didn't practice , just made it up on the spot.. so it sucks....:) 
 
https://soundcloud.com/john-vere/test-the-domra
 
 
 

Cool idea for a music project. 
It's one of my favourite parts of the Musical Instrument Museum in Scottsdale is that you wear these headphones that pick up the audio at each display. You get the hear what each instrument sounds like as you walk around.
 http://mim.org/?gclid=CjwKEAjwydK_BRDK34GenvLB61YSJACZ8da3ADXrdBioqQZ3NpaujmsmftfjxPf1nJCPHRlUzp0qjRoCrW7w_wcB