Basically if you toss an instrument in a bag with a ton of other stuff, you will injure it.

Tossing it in a bag with only other instruments will prevent this.

You can also wear and tear instruments by using them as weapons, using them in watery situations (rain snow underwater etc) and I think you can still injure them be dropping them instead of putting them.

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>>Basically if you toss an instrument in a bag with a ton of other stuff, you will injure it.

Wow, really? Do you have evidence for this? I've always kept instruments in a case, so I never noticed this.


-- Player of Eyuve

I stand corrected I guess. Sorry.

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>>so basically just get a case for each instrument

Well according to GENT's post you don't have to. You can choose to get a case for each, or one large case for all of them, for RP reasons. Or you can store them in your backpack or wherever.

You DO have to worry about them getting damaged in rain/snow/sandstorm.


-- Player of Eyuve

Why'd you have to go to haven? I use the medium case for mine.

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Everything stops the dirtiness timer, these days; apparently it was too system intensive. I haven't needed to clean an instrument in years, either, and I keep mine in my backpack.

>>I'm not sure what causes dirt as I almost never had to clean my instruments with 24/7 playing over many years.

Huh. I actually do have to clean my instruments with my low level bard -- maybe once a day or every other day. Makes me wonder if there isn't some skill involved. Clean the instrument with enough Mech or Instrument skill and it gets protected from dust for a longer time, until eventually it's near-permanent?


-- Player of Eyuve

Oh, also - I play them in the rain a lot. This might somehow affect the rate of dirtiness.

I think weather is a factor, for sure, but there may be a Bard/non-Bard component to it as well. I know when I futz around with instruments on non-Bard characters, cleaning is somewhat laborious. Hmm.

GENT

It has been ages since I used any instrument cases, I just found that most weren't big enough so ditched that way back when for an ease on weight. I threw all of my instruments into one pack for ages until I finally found a case that fits a ton:

You rummage through a medium leather case embellished with a cambrinth medallion and see a pair of blackened zills engraved with a flying heron, a deep green silk cloth woven cross-grain with a magnificent sleeping dragon, a slender silver txistu tipped with a white onyx dragon-shaped mouthpiece, an ebonwood bow, a magnificently crafted black ironwood lyra viol with intricately carved ivory tuning pegs, a shaped obsidian pick, a platinum-tipped drum stick, a yellowed ivory tipper set with a carved ruby-eyed skull, a set of instrument strings and a finely woven cloth of claret-hued silk delicately embroidered with miniature silver lutes.

Those festival Cambrinth cases are awesome.

Then again my spoons have been in my reticule forever and never have gotten damaged.