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The most popular musical forms in my tavern are from civilizations I don't have trade relationships with. I would like to be able to provide them with the appropriate instruments, but it looks like the only way to do that would be to take an adventurer off on an instrument-gathering quest.

I think that it would make sense if, when long-term residents petition for citizenship, they brought with them the knowledge of how to make the instruments (and, eventually, other procedurally-generated cultural items) of their original culture.

[vjmdhzgr]

I think that along with this, the country of origin for an instrument should be added to its generated description. To help differentiate when you have a lot of long-term residents.

[Dirst]

I'm not sure it makes sense that every Tom, Dick and Urist carries around full blueprints for every musical instrument (and later, recipe) in their cultures... but immigrants should bring along their limited skill/knowledge for making the stuff from their home cultures, perhaps with the ability to transmit that knowledge via books and scholarly apprenticeships.

This will limit you to crappy foreign instruments until you get just the right migrant, but it's realistic.

[pikachu17]

this be very cool if non-entity citizens could bring knowledge related to their  profession, like a talented human weaponsmith bringing knowledge of making iron whips, and then your resident weaponsmith/scholar could invent steel whips

[NW_Kohaku]

I'm not sure it makes sense that every Tom, Dick and Urist carries around full blueprints for every musical instrument (and later, recipe) in their cultures... but immigrants should bring along their limited skill/knowledge for making the stuff from their home cultures, perhaps with the ability to transmit that knowledge via books and scholarly apprenticeships.

This will limit you to crappy foreign instruments until you get just the right migrant, but it's realistic.

I don't think some items need blueprints.  I believe that the reason some cultures have veils and others don't is not because a culture hasn't properly researched the idea of a piece of cloth over your face as much as because it's not one of their customs to wear one. 

If I can make a mandolin, there's no reason I can't make a sitar if a lot of people come up and ask me for one.

What this would really need is not technological change, but some sort of interface for cultural changes brought about by contact with other cultures, and how "cosmopolitan" your fortress is becoming...