Help me price these musical instruments.

[Oryan77]

The Song & Silence and the Complete Adventurer books list musical instruments but they do not list their prices. The PHB lists instruments at 5gp each and Masterwork Instruments at 100gp each. This doesn't help much.

I'm trying to put a price on these things and the only other source I found was from a 3rd party book, but it is missing several of these instruments. Based on the prices I have so far:


Alphorn 12 gp
Bagpipes 30 gp
Banjolele 15 gp
Bell, Hanging 55 gp
Chimes, Wind, Full 35 gp
Chimes, Wind, Half 14 gp
Crumhorn 20 gp
Drum 8 gp
Drums, Bongo 8 gp
Drums, Kettle 15 gp
Dulcimer, Hammered 35 gp
Fiddle 50 gp
Flute 20 gp
Gong 60 gp
Handbell 2 gp
Harp 75 gp
Hautbois 30 gp
Horn, Natural 16 gp
Horn, Shell 16 gp
Lap-Harp 25 gp
Lute 25 gp
Lyre 50 gp
Mandolin 22 gp
Pipes, Pan 4 gp
Recorder-Flute 10 gp
Shawm 14 gp
Tabor 5 gp
Trumpet, Herald's 40 gp
Water-Pipe 60 gp
Whistle-Pipe 5 gp

what would you price these remaining items at:


Bones
Clavichord
Harmonica
Harp, Aeolian
Harpsichord
Lur
Organ, Pipe
Psaltery
Stones, Wind
Zither

[nyjastul69]

What is the 3rd party product? Since you seem to be open to 3rd party products, Goods and Gear might be helpful. It's a 3rd party product produced by Kenzerco. It's dual statted for d20 and HackMaster. I didnt find most of the specific requests, but again, it may be useful as a reference. It has a chapter on musical instruments.

[Oryan77]

Goods and Gear might be helpful.

That was the book I used. I couldn't remember the name of it. Unfortunately it didn't have the remaining instruments that I mentioned above.

[nyjastul69]

Oh well... I tried. There are 2 types wind chimes, and the handbell is statted though.

[Telok]

The zither and clavicord (sorry, on cheap ereader now, can't see the original post for reference) are just more lute/dulcimer types. The two harp-likes are essentially smaller portable harps. The pipe organ will probably start at 500+ "small" one that's at least as big as a piano. I've seen a two storey tall one with gilded pipes, so effectively the sky's the limit there.

[Ashtagon]

When all else fails, adopt the beer standard.

At least in the UK, a pint of beer in a pub currently sells for about £4 (ymmw; London is more expensive). A mug of ale is 4 coppers. That means £1 is about one copper piece (sounds about right :smallmad: ). Next, find the price of whichever instrument you are looking for at retail. A quick check on ebay shows me a clavichord selling at £790. So, we can say that's 790 coppers; round it 8 gold pieces. Since that one is second hand, we might suppose a new one sells for 50% more, or 12 gold pieces.