Nontraditional bard instruments/Talents

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Hurdygurdies are pretty cool and portable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHmML7bu-iM

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>>51543516
I would push this.

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Guqin is also one of my favourite instruments and quite mystical and special.
Its incredible sexy too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_I-2z50kK8

There is a fighting scene in Kungfu hustle where the enemy Bard fights with a Gu Zheng(different kind of zitter)

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And if you decide your bard had enough of it, you could always whip out the Theorbo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_I-2z50kK8

Its like one of those new mememaschines on /gg/ only better because bigger.

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Or the Nyckelharpa.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sfBcWvVUbs

>>51543623
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeUcGD4rRRc
wrong link sorry

I'm gonna post a few more later maybe.

Monitor lizarding

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Ah shit. Here comes those damn druid multiclassing hippies with the hang drum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk3BvNLeNgw

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I've yet to see someone use an accordion.

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>>51543347
>Non-traditional
>Zither

>>51543347
>Zither
Ever watch Kung-Fu Hustle?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvJ7QOu0Z0w

If you haven't, go watch it. Great movie.

>>51543347
This is the instrument they used to make horror movie sounds for decades before electronic equipment.

Meet the Waterphone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foSJstDFDfg

>>51544578
And nearly as terrifying....the Apprehension Engine.

You can easily imagine these being used in ancient rituals and played in courts of undead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzk-l8Gm0MY

>>51543347
Play the crwth

>>51543623
>When the bard has to choose between taking an instrument or a 10-foot pole

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The Chinese mouth organ or Sheng also has many attributes.
None of them is sounding pleasant to the european ear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_zwslDkg3g

>>51544618
holy fucking shit dude this is rad

>>51543347
>Huge, muscular motherfucker
>Beat-up breastplate
>Two clubs, or a club and a shield
Play your armor! Play your shield! Play YOUR OPPONENTS!

>>51546791
Might as well make bagpipes out of you enemies corpses.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8Ll4JGtuaY

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How about the cat piano?
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katzenklavier

The sound would be somewhat experimental though.

>>51546313
>when the bard has to compensate because his manhood is only 12 inches long and everyone laughed at him on the bard school

The ud for those who like to head far east
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9tGPTYqfCs

Balalaika's are not often used
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn06W-iBfkQ

>>51546980
>when you fight the campaign boss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JqeSU7lSLE

>>51546980
And I forgot about the bouzouki completely
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvCwj8NWclc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q

>>51543862
That is just and upside down metal drum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49HH7beW0y0

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Kantele. You can create a swamp by playing one.

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Fiddles are also pretty versatile.

>>51546679
This sounds like old PS1 game music. It sounds like someone invented a reed instrument that makes MIDI noises.

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My current party has a Panotti bard with a theremin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3EPtUPcs8s

And not too long ago we met a bard with a saxophone.

>>51543657
That bastard has the hair I'm trying to grow right now. Why am I cursed with a double crown damnit

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I wish I could say bagpipes, but really they don't sound right without the drums.

So I guess sitar would be my pick. Partly because I like how large they are.

>>51547145
How would electronic instruments work?
You always carry speakers?

>>51547223
Pretty sure the speaker's usually integrated into the Theremin. At least the one I worked with at a museum was.

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>>51547223
Theremin has built in speakers.

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>>51546679

Glass harmonica - a perfect instrument for your magically inclined races.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQemvyyJ--g

>>51547145
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eab_beh07HU
Theremin is amazing, even if just as a background instrument. OOH-EEEEEE-UUUU

>>51546679
It really just sounds like an accordion, which makes perfect sense. Instead of pumping air into it, you blow it in.

Your voice of course.

You can do all kinds of crazy shit with just voice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rmo3fKeveo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAv1o9C9qow

And it's not really most people's preferred genre but some bands sing faster than some people can even read the lyrics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UzSHCdmStE

>>51547636
Been trying to get into metal for ages, dunno why but I just find the occasional gem that makes me willing to sift through the stuff I don't like. You got any more stuff like that or how I could find it?

these are the best threads on /tg

>>51547845
avoid anything that is only described as 'metal' or 'rock', unless you are a tremendous metalhead you will most likely think it's super generic and shitty sounding. Find a band you like, look up the stupidly unique genres it get ascribed (like Symphonic Death Metal or Mathcore) and find related bands.In my experience 80% of metal genre descriptions are either how the singer sings or how the guitar sounds

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>>51547845
I dunno, make a Pandora station and let the Likes/Dislikes guide you from there?

If you like the extremely fast "Technical Death Metal" like that (In that case considered "Extreme Technical Death Metal, as dumb as the name isl), there's a few others that come to mind. There's a million different subgenres of "metal" so really it's just a matter of finding what you like and going from there.

Rather than just speed and screaming for the sake of it I like music where the vocals hit a tempo where it fits the instrumentals rather than just rambling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2VCAJfS5Eg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsehWoItaKw

Slower pace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS3tUyvooLE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4U8bSe0bV8

Other genres- Symphonic Death Metal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryqUICh_Dz0&list=PLQmri-pkMRkG3ZPutruwJRZharT5p2fxz&index=3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOaDCEdwngo

Melodic Death Metal-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZqfH1LQEOQ&list=PLENlJlz08dMosDvPgXkPVeN-bTiJotb-E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xeu3iReZoXw

Septic Flesh is actually a really interesting band even if you don't like the genre since they blend different things together in ways you wouldn't expect, here's a video I'd say is an interesting watch even if you don't like the genre since there seems to be a misconception that "metal" is just blind noise for the sake of it without any thought.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0UpkbTXJzw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x2ygfA0vNc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LP0cPJQ6bIM

>>51548680
Forgot part 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLe2UnWPsBA

>>51543347
Accordion, because who doesn't love a polka?

Highland bagpipes, because the music should be a weapon.

>>51547845
Look up folk metal. Korpiklaani should be at the top of the list.
Avoid anything with the -core suffix, because that means it's shit.

>>51546962
Would it be possible to make a more portable version, maybe one or two cats max?

You could fit a lot of cats into a bag of holding, but that would probably affect the sound quality.

>>51549211
>>51548680
It's a p gud genre too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x98wBcH4yhg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N76cTghu_8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AawUSC6hGY

And on the opposite end of the spectrum you have Industrial.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnrFoshetwk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4sWJD5PcZ0

>>51548680
I dunno what it is. I can't can't get into this super speedy metal. I love stoner and sludge metal, but this stuff just doesn't do it.

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>>51549467
Different strokes for different folks I guess, personally I used to listen to slow stuff mostly but as time went on I started liking faster pace stuff.

There's enough bullshit subgenres of metal that there's at least one that someone will find at least tolerable.

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Contrabass flute. Doubles as quarterstaff.

>>51547006
That guy is wasted in front of that crowd. That belongs in a hearty tavern not in front of stone-faced 'aficionados'.

>>51549556
You only say quarterstaff because it looks like a 4. That's pretty fucking numerist, dude.

>>51549467
Fucking Conan man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OH029tPSNE

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Monty Python's Butt Horn

>>51543347
Chapman stick if you could only get an amp
https://youtu.be/a7kIclA4yq4

>>51543862
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=747hJQNJpeg

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>>51543347
DEATH WHISTLE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9QuO09z-SI

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>>51543347
Didgeridoo.

I always wanted to be a Piano-playing bard because Dramatic Piano Playing is the best.

>>51554083
That is legitimately terrifying.

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>>51543347
made an orphica bard once. Perform: Keyboard is great.

The Mouth Harp. I know it only in the context of South African music, like here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EiVmFx-_Ss

>>51543347
I read a story that that effect once.
tl;dr Play a 4-finbgered man (no pinkies). Pinkies just get in the way on the zither.

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Can you summon a bunch of goblins to play some drums with you?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9kzrrw6FVY

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Played an assassin-bard with the Chinese harp based of the duo from kung-fu hustle.

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>>51544578
I played a Mermaid Bard a while back who played the Ocean Harp.
It functioned like any other instrument rules wise but most NPCs felt ambivalent towards it.

>>51543347
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUcTsFe1PVs

>>51543516
look hard for what is a shitty version of ambient guitar

Cowbell