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This page is one of the equipment lists. The lists for furniture and other accomodations can be found here.

Equipment list musical instruments:

Wind instruments:

Name: Description: Price: Weight:
Recorder Long piece of wood with holes and embouchure. Used to be the family christmas entertainment. 50 $ plus 1 pound
Transverse flute Even though it's mostly made of metal, it counts as a wood wind instrument. It's often used in Jazz, too. 55 $ plus 1 pound
Clarinet Is related to the saxophone. Very robust instrument, that's easy to transport. 60 $ plus 1.3 pounds
Drum pipe Small, easily learned variant of the recorder, that's often used by military personnel. 45 $ plus 0.8 pounds
Oboe „Loud wood“, the name says it all. 100 $ plus 2 pounds
Basoon The big brother of the oboe. A pretty bulky thing. 150 $ plus 6 pounds
Pan's pipes Wooden pipes of differing lengths that have been stapled together. 15 $ plus 1 pound
Trumpet A brass wind with valves. 100 $ plus 5 pounds
Fanfare A brass wind without valves, that can only play the tones of the harmonic series. 30 $ plus 3 pounds
Horn A simple brahmin horn. Often used by wild tribes as a signal horn. 10 $ plus 0.5 pounds
Post horn Similar to the fanfare, one can only play the sounds of the harmonic series on this. In the wasteland it's often used as a signal horn. 25 $ plus 1.5 pounds
Tuba As the deepest of the common brass wind instruments, the tuba isn't that different from the trumpet – at least in layman’s eyes. 75 $ plus 8 pounds
Saxophone It looks like a brass wind, but really belongs to the wood winds, due to it's architecture and the method of tone production. 100 $ plus 7 pounds
Digeridoo A long, hollowed piece of wood. Not only popular in Australia. 30 $ plus 1 pound
Harmonika Small, but loud, this is a favorite among musically inclined travellers. 5 $ plus 0.5 pounds
Trombone Due to a lever a fluid transition between notes is possible. 80 $ plus 5 pounds
Clarion Another signal horn, that only produces the notes of the harmonic series. The clarion is rather small and used to be used by the military. 30 $ plus 1 pound
Bagpipes For when it's too much trouble, to hogtie ten cats together and throw 'em in a sack and squeeze that sack... 150 $ plus 10 pounds



Percussion instruments:

Name: Description: Price: Weight:
Military drums Still used by some post War militaries, for example the NCR Rangers, for ceremonial purposes. 20 $ plus 4 pounds
Glockenspiel A xylophone, but made from metal. 15 $ plus 0.5 pounds
Tambourine A rather simple instrument, often with some small bells attached. 10 $ plus 0.5 pounds
Triangle Maybe the simplest musical instrument to learn. 5 $ plus 0.5 pounds
Bongos Small, African drums. Not only popular with wild Tribes. 45 $ plus 4 pounds
Timbal A not too big copper kettle, stringed with synthetic material or animal skin. Comes often in a double pack or even four units at once. 60 $ plus 8 pounds
Cajón Due to it's form, this musical instrument is also called the box drum. This is a simple to learn, but sonorous instrument. 55 $ plus 3 pounds
Castanets Perfect to accompany a salsa. 15 $ plus 0.5 pounds
Djembé An originally African cup drum. It's corpus consists of a hollowed out tree trunk. 70 $ plus 9 pounds
Gong A big metal disk made of brass, often in a convex form. 55 $ plus 7 pounds plus
Steel Pan A musical instrument created on Trinidad, that is made from old oil barrrels. 100 $ plus 40 pounds
Xylophone Similar to the Glockenspiel, but completely made from wood. 10 $ plus 1 pound
Metallophone Another musical instrument, that's very similar to the Glockenspiel. 20 $ plus 1 pound
Dulcimer Looks like a crossbreed between guitar and xylophone. Dulcimers belong to the percussion instruments. 30 $ plus 20 pounds
Conga A one skinned barrel drum from Cuba. 80 $ plus 15 pounds
Rattle Not only popular as a baby toy. 3 $ plus 0.5 pounds
Ratchet This musical instrument is not only used by sports fans and cowboys. There really are musicians that specialize on it. 12 $ plus 1 pound
Bells/brackets Similar to the tambourine, but without a skin. 7 $ plus 1.5 pounds
Drum kit For all occasions on which one wants to annoy one's neighbors. 200 $ plus 65 pounds plus
Cymbal Slightly convex metal disks, sometimes a part of a drum kit, but also found by themselves quite often. 50 $ plus 7 pounds



String- / plucking instruments:

Name: Description: Price: Weight:
Guitar Available as a classical guitar and as a steel string guitar. The steel string guitar has only metal strings. 100 $ plus 10 pounds
Bass guitar No, really, you can play more notes than just E on this. 120 $ plus 10 pounds
Violin A sting instrument that takes a lot of time and patience. Otherwise, it'll just sound like a cat in heat. 150 $ plus 8 pounds
Cello The violin's big sister. 170 $ plus 15 pounds
Contrabass Not only used as a string instrument. It's quite popular as the underlying bass in Jazz music. 200 $ plus 20 pounds
Harp An old, spherical instrument. When hearing a harp the image of angels immediately comes to mind. 55 $ plus 5 pounds
Banjo A very popular instrument in the pre War US. Has a very metallic sound. 85 $ plus 8 pounds
Ukulele Looks like the child of a guitar. Has four strings. 65 $ plus 6 pounds
Lyre Known since ancient times. A small stringed instrument with a resonating box. 180 $ plus 8 pounds
Stroh violin The bastard son of a violin and a gramophone. 230 $ plus 5 pounds



Keyboard instruments:

Name: Description: Price: Weight:
Piano The probably most common keyboard instrument. 600 $ plus 650 pounds
Grand piano The big brother of the normal piano. 1000 $ plus 800 pounds
Accordion Looks a bit like the little brother of a piano. 700 $ plus 550 pounds



The rest:

Name: Description: Price: Weight:
Jaw harp Perfect for that special Spaghetti Western atmosphere. 25 $ plus 0.5 pounds
Theremin Maybe the rarest musical instrument of the Wastes. Certainly the freakiest one. 250 $ plus 15 pounds