Pogo cello

The pogo cello, being a homemade folk instrument, has a configuration that is somewhat open to interpretation depending on the individual who creates it.

A musical instrument that appears to be a pogo cello was invented and first patented in 1951 by a carpenter named Vincent Lyle Badkin.

The pogo cello was sold across the United States for decades as a musical instrument for children, but many adults also bought them for themselves.

Pogo cellos have been seen in marching bands in Iowa and in the Mummers' parade in Philadelphia, PA on New Year's Day.

Since 1975 the Gloucester Hornpipe and Clog Society, an American traditional music group which plays Celtic, maritime, Quebecois, traditional American and other kinds of folk music, has featured a pogo cello made by woodcarver Rita Dunipace, and pogo cello player David "Doc" Rosen.