Item:Polished mahogany psaltery inlaid with a fragile band of jade vines
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| polished mahogany psaltery inlaid with a fragile band of jade vines | |
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| Look: | Tiny jeweled birds perch within the vine thicket, some chasing each other in a madcap dance, others singing gaily, and still others caring for nestlings. Over it all, twenty-four strings await the musician's skill to bring the pictured avian serenade to life. |
| Weight: | 20 stones |
| Metal: | Unknown |
| Appraised Cost: | 17,500 Kronars14,000 Lirums <br />12,628 Dokoras <br />17.5 LTBpoints <br />17.5 Tickets <br />17.5 Scrips <br /> |
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| Dimensions: | 6 length x 3 width x 1 height |
| Sources: | Source is Nytingale's Instruments (6), Nytingale's Instruments (2) |
Appraisal
- You are certain that the mahogany psaltery is crafted from wood.
- You are certain that the mahogany psaltery is of good quality.
- You are certain that the mahogany psaltery is strung with a set of twenty-four gut strings.
- You are certain that the mahogany psaltery needs a pick to be played.
Recall
The psaltery is a formed from a large, shallow box upon which courses of twenty-four strings have been strung width-wise over a pair of ornamentally carved sound holes. Bridges placed at seemingly irregular intervals allow one to achieve a wide variety of tones by plucking the strings to either side of them.