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I think they have. Not the traditional ones, obviously, but there's nothing saying you can't make smaller versions with tech.
The physics of their shape controls how traditional instruments sound.
Take the violin family. Violin is small, has a higher tone in general than the next bigger - the viola. Viola is a little bigger so it has a deeper richer sound than violin. Next bigger is the cello which is much deeper than the violin and quite a bit deeper than the viola, but not as deep as the biggest of them - the upright bass, or double bass, which is the bassiest bass sound that you can really get.
Now consider that each of those can be just the neck board where your finger work to hold strings down, and the part that is usually where the bowing or plucking goes on without any of the body. That's because of technology!
I'll look for pics or links or something
Edit to add: if you look at these Wikipedia articles - even just scanning the pics - you'll see what I mean.
EWI
Electric violin
Electric upright bass