Pagan priest
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What kind of musical instruments do you have in your universe?
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In another solo-play story, this one way out in the Vargr Enclaves, a Suedzuk and Roth Thokken Vargr rock band have both entertainment and a warning for everyone they play to - something is coming. The band makes their way to the Julian Protectorate to save everyone from a galactic phenomenon coming rimward.
It wasn't a solo-play or anything, but I envisioned Vargr with their own morin khurr.
I think that there are really not that many different types of instrument; the differences are in the details. The details will definitely change the sound, though, but at that point you're looking at culture - a European lute isn't going to sound like a Chinese 三线 (sanxian), and neither will sound like the Caribbean/American banjo or its African antecedents.
Beyond that, you start to get into cultural notions of consonance and dissonance; the European 12-tone scale (in either its diatonic or chromatic mode, and in either its equally-tempered or just-intonation mode) is going to have a different sound from Turkish makams, Indian ragas or Javanese gamelan ꦱ꧀ꦭꦺꦤ꧀ꦢꦿꦺꦴ (slendro). There is a certain mathematical "consistency" to the notion of musical consonance; not every combination of notes will work - but the Bohlen-Pierce scale, which has almost nothing in common with 12-tone scales, still is consonant, though tonally "wrong" to an ear trained to 12-tone.
Beyond that, you start to get into cultural notions of consonance and dissonance; the European 12-tone scale (in either its diatonic or chromatic mode, and in either its equally-tempered or just-intonation mode) is going to have a different sound from Turkish makams, Indian ragas or Javanese gamelan ꦱ꧀ꦭꦺꦤ꧀ꦢꦿꦺꦴ (slendro). There is a certain mathematical "consistency" to the notion of musical consonance; not every combination of notes will work - but the Bohlen-Pierce scale, which has almost nothing in common with 12-tone scales, still is consonant, though tonally "wrong" to an ear trained to 12-tone.
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Timerover51
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Two immediate instruments come to mind. One is the Jaw or Jew's harp, which is capable of producing a wide range of music. I remember watching Frazier Thomas play that on Garfield Goose and Friends while growing up near Chicago. The other is the harmonica or mouth organ, which is easy to learn and play. Walter Brennan, when playing the character of Stumpy in Rio Bravo has a ball playing one. Any instrument similar to them would be possible as well.
I would also have some ultrasonic instruments that the Vargr and Zarathustra Fuzzies would appreciate. They would likely appear as pretty much soundless to humans.
amsboethius
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Since live performances are valued in the Imperial setting, strange and unusual historical instruments such as the glass armonica are popular IMTU as they provide an acoustic equivalent to electronic sounds. In terms of setting, "old Solomani classics" such as Dream On are played as lounge/nightclub music, a la Morgan James' classic rendition for Postmodern Jukebox:
Condottiere
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ZhodaniBob
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GREAT QUESTION! Heres what I've found; I hope it helps!
Cool question, mate. Take care and cheers.
- According to the Vilani Glossary and Grammar, there are the ala and the ubala, both religious musical instruments; the irkhamarzali, a Vilani lyre; ad the nakashim, some kind of bell keyboard with foot-powered drums.
- The Graytch (Traveller4), play the gun-jel.
- Percussion, woodwinds, and plucked string instruments are the most common among the K'kree, according to Gurps.
- The Hlansaai are supposed to be quite musical; Embla from Bu and Embla plays a hurdy gurdy.
- Signal GK has the gilyr, with 128 laser sensors hooked up to a synthesizer.
- In non-canon stuff, there's the yaverkvyuss, which requires two Droyne to play.
- The Luriani have the seven-stringed getre.
Cool question, mate. Take care and cheers.
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