Can anyone help identify this weird stringed instrument?

guitarz.blogspot.com:

Hey Guitarz guys, this is James from Krazy Kat Music. We need your help identifying one of the weirdest instruments we've ever seen. It's like a lap steel, but has really weird bars that rotate and fret the strings when you push a button near the headstock. So bizarre!

Here's a video of the mechanism.

So funky.

James

krazy kat

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