Random Musical Instruments

Random Musical Instruments (d109)

There are a surprisingly large number of ways to pluck a string, blow through a tube or hit something with a stick. These techniques are perfected over centuries of culture, history and tradition into musical instruments that can stir the basest of human emotion. From the primal blood rush of pounding war drums to the mournful wails of a lonely violin or the lively dance of an energetic accordion, nearly every human experience can be expressed or enhanced through music. In roleplaying games, the myriad of ways to express stringed, wind and percussion instruments are often reduced down to the lute, flute and drum respectively. However, roaming bards and musicians of all sorts thrive on novelty and curiosity to draw in the crowd’s coin and may play a more uncommon instrument in order to charge a stiffer price for an encore. This table represents a collection of real life instruments all capable of being created with pre-industrial techniques. Furthermore they are all small to medium sized and could be easily be stored, carried, maintained and played by a traveling adventurer.

d109	Result
1	Accordion
2	Alboka
3	Askomandoura
4	Aulos
5	Bagpipes
6	Bandore
7	Banjo
8	Barbiton
9	Bassoon
10	Bongo Drums
11	Bugle
12	Bullroarer
13	Carnyx
14	Castanets
15	Chajchas
16	Chenda
17	Chengila
18	Chimta
19	Citole
20	Cittern
21	Clapsticks / Clave Sticks
22	Clarinet
23	Concertina
24	Concertina
25	Cowbell
26	Crwth
27	Cymbal
28	Daxophone
29	Didgeridoo
30	Djembe
31	Duduk
32	Dulcimer
33	Ektara
34	Fanfare Trumpet
35	Fiddle
36	Fife
37	Finger Cymbals
38	Flute
39	Fujara
40	Glockenspiel
41	Gogona
42	Gong
43	Güiro
44	Hammered Dulcimer
45	Handbell
46	Hang Drum / Handpan
47	Harmonica
48	Hurdy-Gurdy
49	Kagura Suzu
50	Kalimba
51	Kazoo
52	Kettle Drums
53	Koto
54	Kouxian
55	Lap-Harp
56	Lur
57	Lute
58	Lyre
59	Mandolin
60	Maracas
61	Marimba
62	Mizmar
63	Natural Horn
64	Ney
65	Oboe
66	Ocarina
67	Ozark harp
68	Pan Pipes
69	Pandura
70	Pepa
71	Piccolo
72	Pipa
73	Pitch Pipe
74	Psaltery
75	Pungi
76	Qanun
77	Rainstick
78	Rattle
79	Recorder
80	Sackbut
81	Saxhorn
82	Shakuhachi
83	Shamisen
84	Shawm
85	Shehnai
86	Sheng
87	Shofar
88	Singing Bowl
89	Sitar
90	Slide Trumpet
91	Slide Whistle
92	Snare Drum
93	Steel Drum
94	Tabla
95	Tabor Drum
96	Tambourine
97	Tan-tan
98	Timbales
99	Triangle
100	Trumpet
101	Tumbadora
102	Ukulele
103	Viola
104	Violin
105	Waterphone
106	Wood Block
107	Xylophone
108	Zambomba Drum
109	Zither