oh yeah i have a ton of things that make sounds and noizes. but like some one said before, i don't think the people here would think of then as "wierd" like; Digeridoo, kazoo, djembee, Harp. i have all kinds of shaky rattle things, rain makers and such. oh yeah some (penny)whistles aswell, what do you call these things anyway these are fun too (for those of you that have never seen this thingamebob, it's the sound you hear on the opening of The Who - Join Together, or..it sounds like Skippy)
Mouth Harp I always just called it. Oh, and the wooden box is a tounge drum.... mmmm, makes me happy. I play lots of... junk... trashcans, old metal gascans, homemade gutbucket, ashtrays, LOTS AND LOTS OF CHILDREN'S TOYS.... um, next I wanna tackle some circuit bent instruments... and some more gradual sound instruments, I'm in love with my harmonica, and I wast to get back into trombone, and try some fretless stringed instruments.
I had to spend a night in jail not too long ago and the one of the only things that got me smiling was thinking about playin my didge when I got out...
I own and play the following: one kulintang (that's a set of eight small brass gongs laid out horizontally, used by the Maranao, Maguindanao, and other Muslim tribes of the Philippines), one sarunay (that's the miniature version of the kulintang), one kudlong (a two-stringed guitar used by the Bagobo tribe), one faglong (another two-stringed guitar used by the B'laan tribe), plus a bamboo flute that's not precisely tuned.
I think what you have is a hammered dulcimer. Your description of it definetley sounds like one, but I could be wrong.