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
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 />
Properties:
  • This is a musical instrument (or a tool to play, repair, or clean one).
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.