Suggestions for New Instruments

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Suggestions for New Instruments

Postby Crosshair » Tue Jul 04, 2006 11:32 pm

Could we have a sticky for possible instruments?

Cause... Bagpipes is obviously a suggestion I'd put forward... i mean its rather an ancient instrument... And also a Sackbutt. (old version trombone) if Brass could be made...

Edited to make a sticky (rather than start a new thread) and to change the name from "Instruments...again" to "Suggestions for New Instruments" for continuity of the main suggestion sticky titles. -Hermitess
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Postby tiddy ogg » Wed Jul 05, 2006 6:30 am

Ah, you mean instruments of torture.
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Postby Phalynx » Wed Jul 05, 2006 7:04 am

tiddy ogg wrote:Ah, you mean instruments of torture.
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If bagpipes are made my charries will move to a place where they are outlawed!
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Postby Crosshair » Wed Jul 05, 2006 7:57 am

Like.... anywhere south o' Hadriens Wall ;) so you're ok! :P
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Postby nateflory » Wed Jul 05, 2006 1:24 pm

Well, I'm terribly unable to come up with proper resoruces used, but what about some sort of rattle?

Think either a dried gourd (non-existant in Cantr) filled with dried beans or pebbles. Possibly Wood with sand inside, needing a Carving knife to shape properly? Possibly bone rings carved aronud a large bone handle? Details up to RD, but a rattle might be a nice counter-pint to the other persussion instruments, and generic enough to be multi-ethnic.
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Postby Crosshair » Wed Jul 05, 2006 2:30 pm

Glass beads, wood and sinew to bind it :D
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Postby wichita » Wed Jul 05, 2006 2:46 pm

Bagpipes are under discussion, and rattles sound cool. :)
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Postby fishfin » Wed Jul 05, 2006 3:43 pm

I WANT BAG PIPES!!

What about some traditional Chinese instraments like the pipa?
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Postby Solfius » Wed Jul 05, 2006 3:44 pm

I'm not sure but I thought we were trying to avoid cultural specific objects and just go for the generic one without specifying a particular type?
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Postby sanchez » Wed Jul 05, 2006 3:46 pm

Generic for whom, Solfius?

I'd like bagpipes, an accordion, and bongo drums.
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Postby Crosshair » Wed Jul 05, 2006 4:34 pm

Bagpipes are Spanish (North, in Asturias), Irish Scottish and probably otherish thingish too... That isn't really culture specific...
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Postby Agar » Wed Jul 05, 2006 4:43 pm

Ocarina

Can be made from clay or bone, dunno about wood, using a knife for holes on bone flutes seem to work so no reason they can't be used here as well.

And I do own and play (poorly) one of these nice cobalt blue ones. And I do realise how much a dork that makes me :P :lol:
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Postby Crosshair » Wed Jul 05, 2006 5:42 pm

Early clarinets were made of wood... So, perhaps a clarinet? or Oboe would be more accurate... Baroque instrument...
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Postby Surly » Wed Jul 05, 2006 6:32 pm

I am beginning to regret the implementation of musical instruments... :roll:
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Postby Agar » Wed Jul 05, 2006 6:33 pm

How come we can't make a shiney metal flute? Or a trumpet? Steel drums? I WANT A GONG!!!

Unless you count the raw nickle in the tamborine, there's no metal instruments at all.

Can we get a bell? A big bell? A really BIG BELL? That can be heard in the next town? It'd need bronze, which would suck, and a mold, and if I remember right, the mold is destroyed to get the bell out. That'd be cool. But it'd have to be built inside. Another use of hoists and pulleys?

Not an instrumant, but on a related note, a conductors wand that you can point at people with? Can that even be coded?
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