What kind of musical instruments do you have in your universe?
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Grognard_1
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Fiddles for sure 
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The Parting Glass by Tales from the Morrigan
In the ship's garden, a fiddle plays for the lost, then for the living. Sometimes music is the only thing that matters.
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Pagan priest
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The hydrophone is certainly soothing, but looks like it would be rather unpleasant to play in really cold weather.
then it becomes the iceaphone. plays entirely differently.
Pagophone; "hydro" is from the Greek for "water"; the Greek for "ice" is "pagos"
The advertent space drummer will also have bundlesticks and/or brushes (metal wire or nylon) for times when drumsticks would create too much noise. Bundlesticks are dowel rods (often 19) wrapped together to create a softer impact sound than a solid drumstick. Brushes are softer still. The various mallets for pitched percussion instruments would also be a possibility. Heads on those range from yarn-wrapped rubber to soft rubber to acrylic to metal, so one has a plethora of volumes and tones to choose from.
Another possibility are the reeds from double reed instruments (bassoon or oboe), which can make sound even when not attached to the rest of the instrument. Bassoon reeds sound rather kazoo-like (I'm more familiar with them than oboe reeds, which presumably would be higher-pitched because they're smaller). Brass instrument mouthpieces can do similar things, but they look more ridiculous doing them and are bigger and heavier (although more durable) than reeds.
Zills are another highly portable instrument. And if tambourines are being brought, there's probably enough space to fit a shime-daiko, the smallest of the Japanese taiko drums, since a small shime isn't much larger than a tambourine (but built rather differently).
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