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[peekama]

I've often wondered why the instruments produced in the workshops are so wimpy. I mean, harps? Flutes? That's elf shit right there. Dwarves should play magma-powered guitars or this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAg5KjnAhuU.

What does everyone think? What's a really dwarfcore instrument?

[Neonivek]

I think one of the main reasons why Toady hasn't added a lot of instruments is the same reason he didn't add a lot of food.

He plans on expanding it later into a worthwhile addition rather then putting a ton of fodder into the game. (though his Creatures are a different story... I cannot imagine the horror of him updating his creatures)

So I fully expect some greater instruments

Anyhow one explanation why Dwarves don't use any high-powered instruments is because of the risk of doing so in the mountains (where they live) and underground (where they live). They may have addapted to play only instruments that could be played even in the most unsteady underground location.

[Rilder]

That'd be pretty dwarvenly though, destroying their entire fortress with music?

[Karlito]

magma-powered guitars

I can't stop thinking about this.  I mean, imagine the possibilities.

[Groveller]

Pyrophones.

[beorn080]

The horns of Helms Deep. Nuff said.

[Necro]

Oh, I imagine it; fire, water, and steam everywhere. In the midst of this inferno, a maniacal dwarf laughing and singing.

[Yanlin]

magma-powered guitars

Nuff said.

[Apegrape]

I'm thinking about a really awesome looking dwarf playing on some kind of collossal magma-organ with fire and steam and bits of kitten flying around. I don't know why the kittens would be there though.. To grease the machinery?

[roguester]

I think of dwarves more as using  percussion instruments. Or maybe that should be concussion instruments. Kitten powered pianos?

[JoshuaFH]

Absolutely anything to get closer to a "Dwarven Phantom of the Opera"!

[IronValley]

Not sure why, but the idea of a dwarven choir and a magmapowered organ does sound rather sweet.... Deep tones from the deep.... ahh...

[Frelock]

I'm always a fan of the Didgeridoo.

[Apegrape]

I'm always a fan of the Didgeridoo.

That's what i was just thinking too. Just make them out of stone and make them really huge and it's dwarven enough for me.

[Dhargk]

I dunno, I think it kind of makes sense. Although I'm not a music expert I think it's pretty realistically simulating what can be made with few materials.

I mean we have piccolos, drums, harps, flutes, and trumpets. Aside from the harps, the instruments are wind or percussion and not stringed (which wouldn't make sense, because all a dwarf takes to make an instrument is a piece of stone/bone/wood/metal, and not strings.

Personally I can't see a stone trumpet working out very well, but a stone flute might work.

Ok, so harps are the oddball, and drums would be better if you had to use like a layer of leather or something for them, but if we had things like pipe organs and such you'd assume they'd take a lot more materials.

I'd like to see stuff like the gigantic crazy pipe organ implemented as a building. I suppose it'd take some pipe sections, stone, ivory (lol ivory), and maybe even some mechanisms to make.

Or you could have magma pipe organs that use the steam created off of the magma vents to generate the air pressure, which would be plain awesome.

If we had all that, then we could have bardic dwarves playing music in certain areas that generate happy thoughts when dwarves go nearby. "Urist McPeasant has been ecstatic lately. He has dined in a legendary dining room lately, he has admired a superbly designed pipe organ lately, he has been soothed by music lately."

Whoo, sorta went off on a tangent there.