Category:Instruments
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Instruments are the primary way which all players learn and use the performance skill. While some can be played alone, many others require a tool in order to use correctly. Ownership of an instrument can also allow a user to practice the appraisal skill by utilizing the ASSESS command to see greater details about it. While only Bards and Traders are able to get all the information about an instrument through ASSESS, any member of any guild can get basic knowledge.
In addition to the ASSESS command, all instruments are able to be used with the RECALL system. Use of RECALL does not grant any experience in any skill, but does provide players with a simple way to find out more about the instrument itself like construction or how it is played.
Clerics and Paladins can gain devotion or soul state respectively by flawlessly playing a psalm or hymn for an Immortal in a holy place.
Bards and non-Bards of sufficient skill can increase the spirit regeneration of all those in the room by flawlessly playing a minuet (or higher) on any percussion instrument.
Bards have extra options available to them for playing instruments that are not available to other guilds.
Training
The best experience per time ratio is achieved by finding an instrument/song combination that is played "with only the slightest hint of difficulty."
String
Stringed instruments produce sound when tautly-drawn strings are plucked, bowed or strummed, causing them to vibrate. This class of instruments includes zithers and lyres (strummed), fiddles and violins (bowed) and harps (plucked). They are the creation of the goddess Faenella.
Stringed instruments range in size from 10 to 50 stones and can have anywhere from 4 to 24 strings. Some require a pick or a bow in order to be played and all stringed instruments require tuning as the strings gradually lose tension due to inactivity.
In addition to a number of hand-held and portable stringed instruments, there are also some stand-alone instruments (such as harpsichords and cellos) available for playing across Elanthia.
Stringed Instruments
Stringed instruments range in size from 10 to 50 stones and can have anywhere from 4 to 24 strings. Some require a pick or a bow in order to be played and all stringed instruments require tuning as the strings gradually lose tension due to inactivity.
In addition to a number of hand-held and portable stringed instruments, there are also some stand-alone instruments (such as harpsichords and cellos) available for playing across Elanthia.
Stringed instruments include:
- aeolian harp
- angle harp
- bagana
- balalaika
- bandoura
- bouzouki
- bow harp
- cistre
- cittern
- cobza
- concert zither
- crwth
- cythara anglica
- faenellica
- fiddle
- folk lute
- gittern
- guti'adar
- harpsichord
- kelsa
- khurmary
- kithara
- komungo
- lap harp
- lira
- lute
- lyra
- lyre
- mandolin
- mayuri
- nehpar'i
- psaltery
- pyi-pya
- ramkie
- rebec
- simple angle harp
- sitar
- sra'ajhh
- tallharpa
- tambura
- uti
- valiha
- viol
- viola
- violin
Note: This list is compiled from the Instruments chapter in songbooks. It is not a comprehensive list of all instruments in the game, but rather a list of the general templates available.
Stringed Instruments By Difficulty (Easiest to Hardest)
From this post.
- lyre, guti'adar
- sra'ajahh, pi tambura, kithara, angle harp
- lap harp
- faenellica, box fiddle, mandolin, sarangi
- fiddle, lute, pi sitar, rebec, cistre, khurmary
- violin, cittern, gittern
- lyra viol
- large harp
- psaltery
- banjo
- zither
| Item | Source is | Rare item | Is incomplete |
|---|---|---|---|
| Avodire violincello painted with tiny pivuh | Musiceum (3) | ||
| Birch lap harp | Heavenly Harmonies (2), Heavenly Harmonies (1) | true | |
| Burlwood crwth | Prison Riot: The Aftermath/End loot | true | |
| Cherrywood rebec inlaid with intricate cambrinth knotwork | Dark Symphony (2) | true | |
| Child's cedar angle harp | Heavenly Harmonies (2), Heavenly Harmonies (1) | true | |
| Child's ebonwood angle harp | Heavenly Harmonies (2), Heavenly Harmonies (1) | true | |
| Child's ebonwood angle harp painted with strawberries and silver-edged white blossoms | Heavenly Harmonies (2), Heavenly Harmonies (1) | true | |
| Child's golden oak angle harp | Heavenly Harmonies (2), Heavenly Harmonies (1) | true | |
| Child's golden oak angle harp carved with diminutive fae resting beneath mushrooms | Heavenly Harmonies (2), Heavenly Harmonies (1) | true | |
| Child's ironwood angle harp | Heavenly Harmonies (2), Heavenly Harmonies (1) | true | |
| ... further results | |||
Percussion
These instruments were created by the god Idon.
This skill is learned by playing upon percussion instruments, ie: tambourines, bones and drums.
Some instruments require tools to be played, ie: bodhrans require a tipper, drums require sticks, and other instruments may require a hammer.
Percussion Instruments
Percussion instruments are played by striking, scraping or shaking them. Some require special tools such as tippers to play, while others are simple enough to play in one hand. Similarly, some have skins that require tuning and can be broken, necessitating replacement before playing again.
Percussion instruments include:
- bodhran
- bones
- castanets
- claves
- damaru
- doumbec
- drum
- gansa gambang
- gourd rattle
- naqqara
- shaman's drum
- shekere
- shell castanets
- spoons
- steel drum - second pan
- stone castanets
- tabla
- tambourine/darje
- tapani
- wooden scraper
- zills
Note: This list is compiled from the Instruments chapter in songbooks. It is not a comprehensive list of all instruments in the game, but rather a list of the general templates available.
Percussion Instruments by Difficulty (Easiest to Hardest)
From this post.
- guiro, cymbals, frottoir, stamping stick
- zills
- spoons, bones, bodhran, darje, tambourine
- doumbec, castanets, damaru
- naqqara
- shaman's drum
- tabla
- temple drum, ritual drum
- tapani
- gansa-gambang
| Item | Source is | Rare item | Is incomplete |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aldamdin tenor steelpan with a triple braided linen strap | Joys of Noise (6), Joys of Noise (6) | ||
| Amber-tipped drake bones | Perfect Percussion (3) | ||
| Aoustone-inlaid zingana kalungu with treasureweave tension cords | Musiceum (3), Hollow Eve Festival 417/Auction, Item:E'erdream instrument case set with two lotus flower sapphire clasps | ||
| Black ironwood bones inlaid with a gracefully curving band of tiny silver stars | Nytingale's Instruments (9), Nytingale's Instruments (10) | true | |
| Black ironwood tapani inlaid with ivory knotwork chains | S'hhtrkith's Instruments | true | |
| Blue-green sprite-bone castanets shaped like teardrops | Joys of Noise (6) | true | |
| Bodhran | True Bard D'Or, Malik the True Bard | true | |
| Bones | True Bard D'Or, Tall Human Peddler, Malik the True Bard | true | |
| Brass cowbell with a scarlet emerald kingsnake handle | Joys of Noise (6) | true | |
| Brass tabla chased with an overall knotwork pattern | Latanaara's Musical Wonders | true | |
| ... further results | |||
Wind
Wind instruments are played by propelling air through them, usually by blowing. Wind instruments require no special tools or tuning to play. In general, wind instruments can be cleaned without a rag. The goddess Murrula is credited with creating these instruments.
Wind Instruments
Wind instruments are played by blowing air over, through or into them sometimes mechanically. None of them require special tools to play. Some are simple enough to play in one hand, and some require tuning.
Wind instruments include:
- bass shawm
- bladder pipe
- candy whistle
- cane flute
- carnyx
- chalumeaux
- clay whistle
- concertina
- cornamuse
- cornet
- cornett
- cornu
- didjeridu
- fife
- flute
- gemshorn
- hichiriki
- horn
- jug
- minjayrah
- mirliton
- mitbiq
- oboe
- ocarina
- recorder
- s'hintu
- sackbut
- serpent
- shakuhachi
- shell horn
- shintu
- side-blown flute
- syrinx
- txistu
- walking stick flute
- whistle
- yarghul
- zurla
Note: This list is compiled from the Instruments chapter in songbooks. It is not a comprehensive list of all instruments in the game, but rather a list of the general templates available.
Wind Instruments by Difficulty (Easiest to Hardest)
From this post.
- mirliton, whiskey jug, txistu
- clarin, minjayrah,shakuhachi
- flute, ocarina, whistle, recorder, hichiriki, syrinx
- horn, gemshorn, ox horn
- mitbiq, zurna, yarghul
- serpent
- bassoon
- shawm
- cornet, oboe
- sackbut, physalis
- cane flute
- didjeridu
- bagpipes
| Item | Source is | Rare item | Is incomplete |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bagpipes with a black bast bag and polished smokewood pipes | Premium raffles | ||
| Bagpipes with a black cire bag and polished glitvire pipes | Musiceum (1) | ||
| Bagpipes with a plaid bag and polished blackwood pipes | Drones and Drums | ||
| Bagpipes with a plaid bag and polished pine pipes | Drones and Drums | true | |
| Bagpipes with plaid bags and polished ebony pipes | Rose of the Theater | true | |
| Bagpipes with plaid bags and polished oak pipes | Rose of the Theater | true | |
| Bagpipes with plaid bags and polished rosewood pipes | Rose of the Theater | true | |
| Bamboo didjeridu painted with images of horses | Jahtinit's Corner | true | |
| Bamboo flute painted with a pattern of blue waves | Bamboo Hut (3) | true | |
| Beautifully polished platinum flute set with tiny star-shaped diamonds in each key | Incomparable Instruments | true | |
| ... further results | |||
Related Forum Posts
Pages in category "Instruments"
The following 172 pages are in this category, out of 172 total.
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- Item:Acacia hautbois with gold banana-shaped keys for
- Item:Acanth tambourine delicately painted with blossoms
- Item:Aganylosh'a tabor painted with multi-hued rainbows
- Item:Albarco balalaika set with smoke rubies along the fretboard
- Item:Aldamalm violincello inlaid with strips of niello
- Item:Aldamdin tenor steelpan with a triple braided linen strap
- Item:Amber-tipped drake bones
- Item:Amethyst-hued purple gold triangle
- Item:Aoustone-inlaid zingana kalungu with treasureweave tension cords
- Item:Apricot claves inlaid with skeins of gold
- Item:Asini elaja irava featuring an myriagon-shaped soundbox
- Item:Asini zills etched with a bat-eared puppy
- Item:Asini-wrapped electrum triangle
- Item:Avodire violincello painted with tiny pivuh
- Item:Ayabere bassoon carved with intertwining Harawep's web roses
- Item:Ayabere clarinet with orichalcum keys
- Item:Azure-hued glaes zuceira depicting a whimsical scene of grey jade whales frolicking amid waves
- Item:Azurelle bassoon with an abstract niello and silver double helix pattern
- Item:Azurelle tipper
B
- Item:Bagpipes with a black bast bag and polished smokewood pipes
- Item:Bagpipes with a black cire bag and polished glitvire pipes
- Item:Bagpipes with a plaid bag and polished blackwood pipes
- Item:Black gold Glythtide's harp inlaid with golden nagas
- Item:Blue rencate pick shaped like a tiny frog
- Item:Bog oak bass viol inlaid with multi-hued jade cobras
- Item:Bright blue turquoise pick shaped like a fan
- Item:Brinewood ocarina shaped like an anatomically correct brain
C
- Item:Carved bamboo hichiriki banded with pale blue coral
- Item:Carved howlite pick shaped like a large fang
- Item:Concave quadrilateral elaja irava made of loveglass
- Item:Concertina with ivory buttons
- Item:Coruscating Firulfian crystal txistu trimmed in electrified goldfyre
- Item:Cream-hued ramin clarinet with malachite keys
D
- Item:Dainty copper cowbell strung on a braided spun rainbow wrist strap
- Item:Dainty tursa tabla trimmed with tasialm
- Item:Delicate ayabere lyre carved to resemble two mermaids holding a violaceous zuzaret
- Item:Delicate coralite fife with platinum inlay
- Item:Delicate wooden fife inlaid with ebony
- Item:Demonbone pick carved in the shape of a blooming lotus
- Item:Dented iron cowbell
- Item:Deobar drum stick
- Item:Double-necked cross-strung harp made of both ayabere and gloomwood
- Item:Double-necked cross-strung harp made of sap infused glitvire
- Item:Double-necked cross-strung harp of white mistglass inlaid with scenes from the life of Lanival
- Item:Dragonwood lyre carved to resemble a fierce wyrm
- Item:Dull tin triangle
- Item:Dusky crimson loveglass triangle
- Item:Dusky pink ocarina crafted to resemble a Siksrajan apple
- Item:Dwarven iron fife with bands of luminous moonsilver knotwork
E
- E'erdream lap harp in the shape of a wren with a single outstretched wing
- Item:Eggshell-hued spiritwood piccolo with onyx keys
- Elegant sana'ati khurmary depicting the singers of the Ru'atin Peri'el
- Item:Elven silver piccolo with rose gold keys
- Item:Empty rum jug marked with a skull and crossbones
- Item:Ephemeral goldfyre mandolin with a cambrinth-plated faelight leather strap
- Item:Ephemeral goldfyre triangle fixed upon a strand of braided chaosknit
- Item:Etched glass piccolo with delicate gold keys (2)
- Item:Exaggerated square-shaped teak violincello
F
G
- Item:Gilded plumwood pick
- Item:Gleaming flamethorn lyre
- Item:Glitvire zurna inlaid with Ocean's Deep emerald krakens
- Item:Gloomwood ocarina carved into the likeness of a spider
- Item:Glossy kuwinite triangle
- Item:Glossy oceanic orichalcum triangle
- Item:Glowing truegold and cloudbark sitar with sandy silk strings
- Item:Goldenglow glaes capped bagpipes with polished brinewood pipes
- Item:Goldenglow glaes elaja irava with a dragon skull-shaped soundhole
- Item:Graceful crystal flute etched with a pattern of flowers and vines
- Item:Green rencate pick shaped like a fat caterpillar
- Item:Grey-tinged Aesetani applewood theorbo with inlaid with sanguine-hued apples
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- Item:Pair of blackened zills engraved with a flying heron
- Item:Pair of copper zills
- Item:Pair of copper zills etched with marigolds
- Item:Pair of delicately etched moonsilver zills edged with inkdrop agates
- Item:Pair of hecatontagonal blighted gold zills centered with a tiny red diamond blood drop
- Item:Pair of Scarlet Panther lilies secured by a Warrior Mage Guild barrette
- Item:Pear-shaped zingana rebec with ebony tuning pegs
- Item:Pearlescent nacre-bone tabla chased with an overall knotwork pattern in asini
- Item:Penguin egg ocarina
- Item:Petite lap harp inlaid with blooms
- Item:Petrified pine bones striated with jagged slivers of purpleheart
- Item:Phthalo blue-hued oceanic orichalcum piccolo adorned with glossy black niello keys
- Item:Pine handled mallet
- Item:Plain ayabere viola with a gold fingerboard
- Item:Plumwood lute with a carved soundhole of twining modwyn vines
- Item:Polished adderwood psaltery
- Item:Polished Aesetani applewood hautbois with onyx octagonal keys
- Item:Polished afrormosia piccolo with electrum keys
- Item:Polished ayabere bones striated with skeins of gold in a crisscross pattern
- Item:Polished ban-minahle bass viol with oblong silver tuning pegs
- Item:Polished bass viol of oceanic orichalcum with a palladium fingerboard
- Item:Polished black walnut tabor secured with grey tension rope
- Item:Polished crabwood instrument bow
- Item:Polished dragonwood lute patterned with delicate birch inlay
- Item:Polished Dwarven iron hautbois with red jade keys for
- Item:Polished goldenglow glaes clarinet with onyx keys
- Item:Polished goldenglow glaes instrument bow
- Item:Polished goldenglow glaes triangle
- Item:Polished haon bass viol
- Item:Polished holm oak instrument bow
- Item:Polished ilomba viola with an arkose sandstone inlaid fingerboard
- Item:Polished lacewood piccolo with druzy quartz keys
- Item:Polished loveglass instrument bow
- Item:Polished moabi heartwood violincello adorned with niello sharks
- Item:Polished oceanic orichalcum instrument bow inlaid with tiny obsidian eighth notes
- Item:Polished red macawood clarinet with anlora-avtoma keys
- Item:Polished ribbon-stripe hautbois with gold hexagonal keys
- Item:Polished ribbon-stripe instrument bow
- Item:Polished ribbon-stripe tabor decorated with silver edging
- Item:Polished Siksrajan applewood viola with a fingerboard crushed epidote
- Item:Polished tamboti tapani fitted with gold filigree
- Item:Polished violet-hued alerce violincello inlaid with skeins of niello
- Item:Purple rencate pick shaped like a dodecahedron
R
- Item:Red rencate pick shaped like a pair of lips
- Item:Reddish-brown ribbon-stripe piccolo with silver keys
- Item:Robust winterweave bagpipes displaying rivertear-encrusted aldamdin pipes
- Item:Rosewood ocarina inlaid with a deep golden amber squirrel
- Item:Rosy-pink loveglass piccolo adorned with heart-shaped asini keys
S
- Item:Sago palm pick carved to resemble a lemur
- Item:Sana'ati psaltry inlaid with a duet of kittens in a sea of geshiloira
- Item:Scraggly demonbone drum stick
- Item:Shiny sungold cowbell etched with the face of a beaming bovine
- Item:Silverwood drum stick
- Item:Silverwood ocarina inlaid with a pale blue moon pearl lotus blossom
- Item:Slender goldenglow glaes txistu embellished with a dragon-shaped mouthpiece
- Item:Small coralite xylophone with a wide leather strap
- Item:Small silversteel cowbell etched with daisy garlands along the rim
- Item:Small tel'athi cowbell etched with gold arabesques
- Item:Smokewood bandoura
- Item:Smooth pine castanets carved to resemble tiny hands
- Item:Snow-white spiritwood violincello carved with romping foxes
- Item:Softly sanded pi tambura painted with twittering songbirds
- Item:Stormtouched cloudbark kalimba with seven prismatic keys
- Strand of silver bells hung from a cloth of gold strap
- Item:Stylized flame heartwood osage bassoon adorned with ruby flames
- Item:Sungold zuceira showing a stylized depiction of Mir'Kazeril in blackened moonsilver
- Item:Sungold-rimmed tambourine with luminous moonsilver cymbals