Per 
SCP-5294 (also known as "The Living Strings") is a safe-class object.
Containment Protocol:
All personnel may only non-physically interact with SCP-5294, to avoid contamination.
SCP-5294 must be put in a mahogany chamber with rank 3 clearance when not in use by personnel.
Only site researchers rank 3 and up are permitted to handle SCP-5294 when in use.
Every month, D-Class personnel equipped with hazmat suits and earpieces are instructed by an 05 Council Member to tune and refurbish SCP-5294’s parts.
Bi-weekly, site researchers equipped with hazmat suits inspect SCP-5294 for any structural damage. If any is reported, D-Class personnel are instructed to repair it immediately.
Description:
SCP-5294, or “The Living Strings” is a large sentient string instrument of unknown origin. The base materials of SCP-5294 consist of an unknown species of wood (nicknamed “Wooden Gold” by site researchers), titanium strings, and volcanic rock-based fingerboards. The following list depicts all identified string instruments within SCP-5294:
1 Eight-Stringed Classical Guitar
1 Seven-Stringed Autoharp
1 Two-Stringed Acoustic Bass
2 Three-Stringed Lute/Mandolins (The second with 1 string)
1 Four-Stringed Tapped Guitar
1 Two-String Ukelele
Note that all of the listed instruments above are fused into one component. SCP-5294 is capable of replicating any sheet music for any set of instruments and converting it into string melodies. It appears to be sentient, as SCP-5294 can play any sheet music provided, through the use of its many wooden limbs that have no apparent source of movement. Every first Thursday of the month, the Foundation accepts submissions for a song that SCP-5294 should play the following Friday. The Foundation brings a set of sound recording equipment to play SCP-5294’s audio throughout the site. A recreation of SCP-5294 was made on Mar 18, 2008, in the form of a computer animation. A link to said animation is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toXNVbvFXyk
Discovery:
SCP-5294 was discovered at an archaeological dig site near Stonehenge, on February 12th, 1983, by a group of citizens. According to a first-hand report by [DATA EXPUNGED], “There was a barely audible hum that could be heard from the surface. My colleagues proposed the idea to stop digging, but I was able to convince them otherwise. When we dug towards the sound, we hit something solid. We pulled it out of the ground, and a single arm, or- or- something, is plucking at a single string…” Shortly after this incident, Class-D amnestics were applied to all who were present at the event. The Foundation brought SCP-5294 in for research and quickly restored it to what was thought to be its original state.
