Musical instrument
Musical instruments vary widely between cultures, musical styles, and craftsmanship. Many are handheld, such as bagpipes, bells, chimes, drums, fiddles, violins and similar instruments, flutes, recorders, small harps and lyres, lutes and guitars, and small horns such as trumpets. Others, such as cellos and tubas, are bulkier but still portable. Pianos, large harps, sets of chimes, and keyboards often must be fully stationary to be played.123
Several families categorize musical instruments: string or stringed instruments; percussion instruments; keyboard instruments; and wind instruments, usually further categorized into woodwind instruments and brass instruments.4
Mundane instruments typically cost between 8 silver pieces and 100 gold pieces.123
On Golarion
Shoanti of the Sklar-Quah wield totem spears, which have decorative hollows that allow them to also be played as wind instruments.5
Prior to its destruction in the Night of Ashes, the Silver Star in Kintargo was a musical instrument shop.6
Canopy trolls are fascinated by instruments.7
As magic items
Some musical instruments are magical in nature:
- Entwined syrinx were reportedly popular wind instruments in ancient Azlant. The Pathfinder Society holds one surviving set, once owned by famed composer Skrelyn Leisson, in its collection.8
- Garls Harp is a presumed magical Azlanti musical instrument recovered by the Pathfinder Bodriggan Wuthers from the Screaming Jungle in Garund.9
In the Great Beyond
Lyrakiens are azatas that particularly enjoy performing music. Many carry instruments and are known to challenge mortals to musical duels.10
Kaminaris, kami of storms, enjoy playing booming musical instruments (often percussive ones).11
Calacas, psychopomps of consolation, often carry guitars or fiddles.12
In religion
Shelyn, a patron deity of arts and music, is sometimes depicted as playing the harp13 and is said to have a collection of violins.14
References
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “6: Equipment” in Core Rulebook, 290. Paizo Inc., 2019 .
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 “Chapter 6: Equipment” in Core Rulebook, 158. Paizo Inc., 2009 .
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 “Chapter 2: Gear” in Ultimate Equipment, 77. Paizo Inc., 2012 .
- ↑ Orchestra, Wikipedia.
- ↑ “Equipment in Varisia” in Varisia, Birthplace of Legends, 15. Paizo Inc., 2012 .
- ↑ “Kintargo” in In Hell's Bright Shadow, 65. Paizo Inc., 2015 .
- ↑ “Bestiary” in Fangs of War, 90–91. Paizo Inc., 2017 .
- ↑ “Treasures of the Pathfinders” in What Lies in Dust, 55. Paizo Inc., 2009 .
- ↑ Among the Living, 3. Paizo Inc., 2008 .
- ↑ “Monsters A-Z” in Bestiary, 30. Paizo Inc., 2019 .
- ↑ “Bestiary” in Forest of Spirits, 86–87. Paizo Inc., 2011 .
- ↑ “Bestiary” in Borne by the Sun's Grace, 88–89. Paizo Inc., 2019 .
- ↑ “Gods of the Inner Sea” in Gods & Magic, 44. Paizo Inc., 2020 .
- ↑ Mike McArtor. (July 3, 2007). Messageboard post, Paizo boards.