How about this for a microphone
 

Off topic, sorry, but I'd like to see you mount this beastie on your FX7!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/home/features/d...in_400x260.jpg

(Neville Chamberlain during WWII)

Full page at BBC - Homepage but probably not for long.

Minus Mr Chamberlain it looks more like a hairdrier or an electric fridgefresh.
Quite an Art Deco design though, and not Auntie's usual style. Not the familar built-like-a-brick-s***house BBC type A as in The BBC Type A Microphone