Thanks Acadia , doing it all in postwork is normally what I would do .
  I want the hand poses to be accurate so a prop for the bars at least will help  . 
Anyway I've got hand reference pics so I'll just use primitives for the cross bars and add the strings in post.   

Lol,  also it's just really bugging me that I'm sure I saw a set on this site somewhere not that long ago either  and now can't find it...  

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