Post by Suzaku The Red on Jan 19, 2010 14:09:00 GMT -5
These are a list of instruments that can be found in Musical Shops in virtually any country or village.
Flute
Rank: "D"
Type: Main, Instrument
Effect: The flute is a transverse (or side-blown) woodwind instrument that is closed at the blown end and blown on the side near the closed end. The instrument is played by blowing a stream of air over the embouchure hole (äm-bù-shəre). The flute has 16 circular finger holes closed by keys, which can be used to produce high and low sounds depending on which finger holes are opened or closed as well as the direction and intensity of the air stream.
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Drawback: ---
Description: The term flute most commonly applies to the popular transverse side-blown musical instrument made of metal. The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. The flute is recognisable by its clean, pure sound.
Limit: Capable of being bought within Any Musical Shop.
Cost: Small: 1,000 Ryo, Medium: 2,000 Ryo, Large: 4,000 Ryo, Huge: 8,000 Ryo
Clarinets
Rank: "C"
Type: Main, Instrument
Effect: The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The name derives from adding the suffix -et meaning little to the Italian word clarino meaning a particular type of trumpet, as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet. The instrument has an approximately cylindrical bore, and uses a single reed.
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Drawback: ---
Description: Clarinets actually comprise a family of instruments of differing sizes and pitches. It is the largest such instrument family, with more than a dozen types. Of these many are rare or obsolete, and music written for them is usually played on one of the more common size instruments. The cylindrical bore is largely responsible for the clarinet's distinctive timbre, which varies between its three main registers. It can play over 4 octaves depending on the ablity of the musician. The tone quality can vary greatly with the musician, the music, the style of clarinet, and the reed. These Clarinets are within as of Piccolo Clarinet, Sopranino Clarinet, Soprano Clarinet, Saxonette, Basset Clarinet, Clarinette D'amour, Basset horn, Alto Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Contra-Alto Clarinet, Contrabass Clarinet, Octocontra-Alto Clarinet, and Octocontrabass Clarinet.
Limit: Capable of being bought within Any Musical Shop.
Cost: Small: 1,000 Ryo, Medium: 2,000 Ryo, Large: 4,000 Ryo, Huge: 8,000 Ryo
Harp
Rank: "C"
Type: Main, Instrument
Effect: The harp is a stringed instrument which has the plane of its strings positioned perpendicular to the soundboard. All harps have a neck, resonator and strings. Some, known as frame harps, also have a forepillar; those lacking the forepillar are referred to as open harps. Depending on its size (which varies considerably), a harp may be played while held in the lap or while stood on the floor. Harp strings can be made of nylon (sometimes wound around copper), gut (more commonly used than nylon), wire, or silk. A person who plays the harp is called a harpist or a harper. Folk and Celtic musicians often use the term "harper," whereas classical/pedal musicians use "harpist."
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Drawback: ---
Description: Various types of harps are found in Africa, Europe, North, and South America, and a few parts of Asia. In antiquity harps and the closely related lyres were very prominent in nearly all musical cultures, but they lost popularity in the early 19th century with Western music composers, being thought of primarily as a woman's instrument after Marie Antoinette popularised it as an activity for women. The aeolian harp (wind harp), the autoharp, and all forms of the lyre and Kithara are not harps because their strings are not perpendicular to the soundboard; they are part of the zither family of instruments along with the piano and harpsichord. In blues music, the Harmonica is called a "Blues harp" or "harp", but it is a free reed wind instrument, not a stringed instrument.
Limit: Capable of being bought within Any Musical Shop.
Cost: Small: 2,500 Ryo, Medium: 5,000 Ryo, Large: 10,000 Ryo, Huge: 20,000 Ryo
Lute
Rank: "C"
Type: Main, Instrument
Effect: Lute can refer generally to any plucked string instrument with a neck (either fretted or unfretted) and a deep round back, or more specifically to an instrument from the family of European lutes.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: The European lute and the Near-Eastern oud both descend from a common ancestor, with diverging evolutionary paths. The lute is used in a great variety of instrumental music from the early renaissance to the late baroque eras. It is also an accompanying instrument, especially in vocal works, often realizing a basso continuo or playing a written-out accompaniment. The player of a lute is called a lutenist, lutanist, or lutist, and a maker of lutes (or any string instrument) is called a luthier. There are other types of Lute such as Archlute, and Theorbo.
Limit: Capable of being bought within Any Musical Shop.
Cost: Small: 1,500 Ryo, Medium: 3,000 Ryo, Large: 6,000 Ryo, Huge: 12,000 Ryo
Mandolin
Rank: "C"
Type: Main, Instrument
Effect: A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family (plucked, or strummed). It is descended from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. It has a body with a teardrop-shaped soundboard, or one which is essentially oval in shape, with a soundhole, or soundholes, of varying shapes which are open and are not decorated with an intricately carved grille like the Baroque era mandolins.
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Drawback: ---
Description: Originally mandolins had six double courses of gut strings tuned similarly to lutes, and plucked with the fingertips, while the design common today has eight metal strings in four pairs (courses) which are plucked with a plectrum. The latter originated in Naples, Italy during the 3rd quarter of the 18th century. There were and still are many variants. These include Milanese, Lombard, Brescian and other 6-course types, as well as four-string (one string per course), twelve-string (three strings per course), and sixteen-string (four strings per course). Some Mandolins are the Mandola, Octave Mandola, Mandocello, and Mando Bajo.
Limit: Capable of being bought within Any Musical Shop.
Cost: Small: 1,500 Ryo, Medium: 3,000 Ryo, Large: 6,000 Ryo, Huge: 12,000 Ryo
Flute
Rank: "D"
Type: Main, Instrument
Effect: The flute is a transverse (or side-blown) woodwind instrument that is closed at the blown end and blown on the side near the closed end. The instrument is played by blowing a stream of air over the embouchure hole (äm-bù-shəre). The flute has 16 circular finger holes closed by keys, which can be used to produce high and low sounds depending on which finger holes are opened or closed as well as the direction and intensity of the air stream.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: The term flute most commonly applies to the popular transverse side-blown musical instrument made of metal. The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. The flute is recognisable by its clean, pure sound.
Limit: Capable of being bought within Any Musical Shop.
Cost: Small: 1,000 Ryo, Medium: 2,000 Ryo, Large: 4,000 Ryo, Huge: 8,000 Ryo
Clarinets
Rank: "C"
Type: Main, Instrument
Effect: The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The name derives from adding the suffix -et meaning little to the Italian word clarino meaning a particular type of trumpet, as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet. The instrument has an approximately cylindrical bore, and uses a single reed.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Clarinets actually comprise a family of instruments of differing sizes and pitches. It is the largest such instrument family, with more than a dozen types. Of these many are rare or obsolete, and music written for them is usually played on one of the more common size instruments. The cylindrical bore is largely responsible for the clarinet's distinctive timbre, which varies between its three main registers. It can play over 4 octaves depending on the ablity of the musician. The tone quality can vary greatly with the musician, the music, the style of clarinet, and the reed. These Clarinets are within as of Piccolo Clarinet, Sopranino Clarinet, Soprano Clarinet, Saxonette, Basset Clarinet, Clarinette D'amour, Basset horn, Alto Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Contra-Alto Clarinet, Contrabass Clarinet, Octocontra-Alto Clarinet, and Octocontrabass Clarinet.
Limit: Capable of being bought within Any Musical Shop.
Cost: Small: 1,000 Ryo, Medium: 2,000 Ryo, Large: 4,000 Ryo, Huge: 8,000 Ryo
Harp
Rank: "C"
Type: Main, Instrument
Effect: The harp is a stringed instrument which has the plane of its strings positioned perpendicular to the soundboard. All harps have a neck, resonator and strings. Some, known as frame harps, also have a forepillar; those lacking the forepillar are referred to as open harps. Depending on its size (which varies considerably), a harp may be played while held in the lap or while stood on the floor. Harp strings can be made of nylon (sometimes wound around copper), gut (more commonly used than nylon), wire, or silk. A person who plays the harp is called a harpist or a harper. Folk and Celtic musicians often use the term "harper," whereas classical/pedal musicians use "harpist."
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Various types of harps are found in Africa, Europe, North, and South America, and a few parts of Asia. In antiquity harps and the closely related lyres were very prominent in nearly all musical cultures, but they lost popularity in the early 19th century with Western music composers, being thought of primarily as a woman's instrument after Marie Antoinette popularised it as an activity for women. The aeolian harp (wind harp), the autoharp, and all forms of the lyre and Kithara are not harps because their strings are not perpendicular to the soundboard; they are part of the zither family of instruments along with the piano and harpsichord. In blues music, the Harmonica is called a "Blues harp" or "harp", but it is a free reed wind instrument, not a stringed instrument.
Limit: Capable of being bought within Any Musical Shop.
Cost: Small: 2,500 Ryo, Medium: 5,000 Ryo, Large: 10,000 Ryo, Huge: 20,000 Ryo
Lute
Rank: "C"
Type: Main, Instrument
Effect: Lute can refer generally to any plucked string instrument with a neck (either fretted or unfretted) and a deep round back, or more specifically to an instrument from the family of European lutes.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: The European lute and the Near-Eastern oud both descend from a common ancestor, with diverging evolutionary paths. The lute is used in a great variety of instrumental music from the early renaissance to the late baroque eras. It is also an accompanying instrument, especially in vocal works, often realizing a basso continuo or playing a written-out accompaniment. The player of a lute is called a lutenist, lutanist, or lutist, and a maker of lutes (or any string instrument) is called a luthier. There are other types of Lute such as Archlute, and Theorbo.
Limit: Capable of being bought within Any Musical Shop.
Cost: Small: 1,500 Ryo, Medium: 3,000 Ryo, Large: 6,000 Ryo, Huge: 12,000 Ryo
Mandolin
Rank: "C"
Type: Main, Instrument
Effect: A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family (plucked, or strummed). It is descended from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. It has a body with a teardrop-shaped soundboard, or one which is essentially oval in shape, with a soundhole, or soundholes, of varying shapes which are open and are not decorated with an intricately carved grille like the Baroque era mandolins.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Originally mandolins had six double courses of gut strings tuned similarly to lutes, and plucked with the fingertips, while the design common today has eight metal strings in four pairs (courses) which are plucked with a plectrum. The latter originated in Naples, Italy during the 3rd quarter of the 18th century. There were and still are many variants. These include Milanese, Lombard, Brescian and other 6-course types, as well as four-string (one string per course), twelve-string (three strings per course), and sixteen-string (four strings per course). Some Mandolins are the Mandola, Octave Mandola, Mandocello, and Mando Bajo.
Limit: Capable of being bought within Any Musical Shop.
Cost: Small: 1,500 Ryo, Medium: 3,000 Ryo, Large: 6,000 Ryo, Huge: 12,000 Ryo