Musical Instruments

All musical instruments require practice and training in order to sound decent when played. That is why the Musical Instrument mastery is required in order to add your acting skill to your acting check when performing with a musical instrument. It is also required when using a musical instrument for channeling.

The musical instruments listed are the most popular among musicians. While the listed instruments are mostly used by those with wealth, it is possible to get a simple instrument for half the cost. The simple instruments are of poor quality, they cannot gain any bonuses from masteries, and have their durability lowered by half.

Types of Instruments

Accordion

Accordions are musical instruments that you play by squeezing and stretching them.

Bagpipes

A wind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air as a bag.

Bugle

The bugle is one of the simplest brass instruments, having no valves or other pitch-altering devices. All pitch control is done by varying the player’s embouchure. The bugle is limited to notes within the harmonic series.

Didgeridoo

A long hollow branch or stick that makes a deep drone when blown into while vibrating the lips.

Drum

Percussion Instruments produce sound by being hit or shaken, any movement that creates a vibration so the object can make its sound. Made with two rope-tuned, skin heads that are rolled and stitched with the snare on the top head.

Flute

The flute is a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. A flute is a wind instrument that produces sound by air flowing across an opening. It doesn't have a reed like woodwind instruments.

Lute

A Lute can refer to any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back.

Pan Pipes

Pan pipes comprise several pipes that increase in length (and sometimes thickness). The pipes are typically made from bamboo, giant cane, or local reeds. Other materials include wood, plastic, metal and ivory.

Saxopone

A woodwind instrument with a single reed and a conical body, usually made of brass.

Shamisen

The shamisen is a plucked, stringed instrument. Its construction follows a model like that of a lute, with a neck and strings stretched across a resonating body. It is played with a plectrum called a bachi.

Steam Pipes

A large metal canister with pipes that extend out. The canister sits on the player’s back and the six pipes wrap around to their front. Flipping the nozzles on the pipes lets out a small bit of steam and noise. Each pipe has different dimensions to give different tones. One canister lasts for two hours.

Violin

The violin is a wooden string instrument in the violin family. It is the smallest and highest-pitched instrument in the family in regular use.

Voice

You have taken lessons in order to train your voice as an instrument. Paying the cost gives you a +1 to acting checks when using your voice. Keep in mind that if using musical instruments for channeling, you still require a conduit if using your voice as the instrument. Your voice is not considered a physical object.

Xylophone

The xylophone is a musical instrument in the percussion family that comprises wooden bars that, when struck by mallets, create tones.