Favorite nontraditional instruments? Need inspiration for my bard

>Singing Bone fairytale

I hadn't even considered that, but it's a great idea. I've always liked singing bone stories. I got into them as a kid by way of their descendant, The Amazing Bone by William Steig.

Hang drum is best drum.

Pic related

It really is

Yaybahar. It's not portable but it makes really chilling sounds: youtube.com/watch?v=_aY6TxC1ojA

I will regret my entire life if I don't actually respond to this at 2 am.

Hurdy Gurdy
youtube.com/watch?v=QHmML7bu-iM

Rhythm bones
youtube.com/watch?v=iMokBr9cTxM

paper fed music box
youtube.com/watch?v=AEBusG29ISk
(imagine feeding an enchanted scroll through one of these suckers)

Aztec Death Whistle
youtube.com/watch?v=I9QuO09z-SI

Updating to say that there are a couple of instruments in that video that would make cool bardic instruments. (Even if they had to show clips of people playing the instruments properly to show why they were so cool.)

Will check that out! Have a video open to listen to/watch in a bit.

Why not a concertina? Play Irish reels!

This guy's selection is good, listen to him

Thanks dude!

amazon.com/Kazoobie-HUMMbucker-Electric-Kazoo-colors/dp/B002GI55PY

(Magic version, of ocurse.)

Could always try to find an Ondoline

youtube.com/watch?v=HJb0394et0Y

woops, I meant Ondioline

Giant Banjo!

youtube.com/watch?v=YzN5K6rX2to

String it with the guts of your fallen foes!

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The nickelharpa is like a tacticool fiddle. Summat about the fret keys that I really like
youtube.com/watch?v=-PY2JPi-Ztc

Also shoutout to gourd mbiras (pic related) which I grew up in a house full of

Go for a hybrid Bard/necromancer and choose Xylophone

Tap dancing shoes.

Digeridoo

Jew's harp.
youtu.be/IxOapWidM1M

While bagpipes are often the "comedy go to" bard instrument I'm sure most go with the great pipes for full effect.

The smallpipes however make much more sense for a travelling bard in my opinion. Not least of all because being bellows powered means they can sing, tell a story, or give battlefield commands at the same time.

With bellows in them that play tones based on how hard you tap

Kaval
Cimbalom
Kobza
Aztec death whistle

Maybe you could combine them with the small pipes?

Didgeridoo my dude.

This too.

How about the most low-effort instrument?

Didgeridoo
Theremin
Vuvuzela

Slide Whistle

Diddley Bow cause they can be made out of pretty much anything.

Grand piano

Too bad you can't use it while dance fighting.

That sounds like a challenge and a couple of dex tests to me.

How about the most underrated musical instrument?
Vocal chords

Even more than that, the use if it not to make music but to tell stories.

Bards = Music is such a limited mind set.

Baby Grand Piano

i've always wanted to roll a grimly humorous bard who plays the aztec death whistle, you know the one that sounds like a thousand ghosts howling in pain.

I did this once. Bard with duelist feats into dragon disciple into dervish dancer. Maximum over-jank, but it was a fun build

>Theremin

youtube.com/watch?v=K6KbEnGnymk

Spoons

Hurdy-Gurdy
if even just to keep saying the word

WE WUZ?

Octobass.
Make sure you have 20 STR, though.

Do you even know where the fuck Tibet is? Hint: over 1000 miles from Africa.

For a modern setting, why not a keytar?

Wimplo?
youtube.com/watch?v=nOAMJH9g4sI

How about a musical chair?

alternatively this really long violin.

Alternatively alternatively, this hammer.

It has F-holes and a curvy bit like a chello. So it must be an instrument.

An entire drum kit.
youtube.com/watch?v=bn4IprJww8w

The daxophone

youtube.com/watch?v=uHMYZsTxebg

youtube.com/watch?v=t9_OWNpugzI

Drums are the best instrument to listen to while fighting. War drums existed for a reason.

>Hammer
Get out of here Clarkson

nah the hover drums are the next step
adultswim.com/videos/metalocalypse/the-hoverdrums-incident/

>rhythm bones
Now I want to make a bard who only plays music like in that video. I can picture it now.

he was joking about the name user.
"kang-ling"

youtube.com/watch?v=sKOkJRT8zhA
For budget Slav bard needs.

All I can think of is this music accompanying these pictures

>Favorite nontraditional instruments?
Laser Harp
youtu.be/WkkhcwXpYy4

Beat me to it.
youtube.com/watch?v=PjnaciNT-wQ

holy fuck that paper fed music box one is so rad

STOLEN

INCORPORATED

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When you wanna play a bard but everyone else wants to do a cyberpunk setting

Yeah, imagine rolling a 20 and playing this shit.
youtube.com/watch?v=XziuEdpVUe0

Marble machine.

youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q

>Death whistle
What the actual fuck

Fantasy Cossack bard who plays the bandura lute and war drums

Tell me a few hundred of those mixed in with several thousand Aztec warriors famous for cutting your fucking heart out wouldn't make even the most hardened troops break. The Spanish were simply too stupid to die. Oh, and the steel thing. And gunpowder. And mass plague. And an insane decapitation strike. But other than that, the Spanish were just too stupid to die.

The Spanish depended a lot on enlisting the help of the tribes underneath the Aztecs. It's not quite as simple as steel+germs

Only real answer here boys... vibraslap.

Bongos

>Giving your bard weeb trash

If you're going to give him something like an otamatone, make it the huge one

Dont buy the smaller ones, they barely make any noise. Go get a bigger one, but not the huge one. Take it from me

It isn't the instrument that makes the bard interesting. It's the character.

95% of the things in this thread are just "LOOK AT ME GUYS ARENT I SO WACKY AND COOL" suggestions.

I played an inkling bard with an askomandoura:
youtu.be/6isONaGLazc

Aside from the allied Mesoamerican tribes, and the steel, and gunpowder, and plague, and the decapitation strike, the Spanish were too stupid to succumb to the death whistle.

You've completely missed the gag, sir.

sorry

>death whistle
Thanks just bought one. Time to scare the everliving FUCK out of my friends.
etsy.com/listing/232247422/aztec-death-whistle-the-carnivore-aztec?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=death whistle&ref=sc_gallery_2&plkey=0941ab2a765955d268534636203242b4706999c6:232247422

>The daxophone
thank you

"Yorik, We need a buff!"

"I'm on it!"

"Where's the buff Yorik?"

"I'm trying to find the right roll in my bag, I've got like twelve of the things in here!"

"WHY AREN'T THEY LABELED!"

"FUCK YOU THAT'S WHY!"

Bards don't need instruments, you're just too much of a candyass to be a mime bard.

>jackpot digits
apparently we've got a bard posting in this very thread

>plays air guitar
>somehow makes the music

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a musical saw

It gets funnier the longer I listen to it.

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Theremin

Its whats used in a lot of sci fi movies to make that unnatural sounding hum. Its operated literally just by moving your hands near 2 antennas. Call it magic and your golden.

I see your theremin and raise you a waterphone.

youtube.com/watch?v=FvWnsaGCf_A

>monster hunter

Guqin.
youtube.com/watch?v=6wl3MP-1o9w

Define "nontraditional".
youtube.com/watch?v=ypuaJLHK_LQ