Musician Archive

OMG it rocks! I'm tempted to just quit Holoing and keep M Entertainer. Starwars1 is nowawesome with the Mando.

Musicians need something like the mando like a bass guitar/evilgrin!

Rally for the Vibro Harp!!!!!

either that or a water harp, similar to the water gong. . ... . I'll explain the technicalities to anyone interested. . .

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KoraJubali wrote:

Rally for the Vibro Harp!!!!!

either that or a water harp, similar to the water gong. . ... . I'll explain the technicalities to anyone interested. . .

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Mike I think you just want me to bump the Vibro Harp idea more . . . .

If anyone cares to do a search on Vibro Harp, I have a way-too-invlved post with my own made up version of the origin of the Vibro Harp. From back in August or September. ..

anyway, on to the Water Harp, or Hydro-Harp:

I'll have to look up this water gong instrument again. it exists and I've heard it played but I was too far from the stage to get a good look at it. I think the water gong is essentially a bucket filled with water with a membrane stretched over the top. Then a string is connected to the inside of the bucket and pulled through the head. The string has to be stretchy cause the sound is made by pulling the string in and out thus vibrating the head. That would be an ordinary annoying sound by itself but the "sound box," if you will, has water in it and the waves of the water make the volume of vibrating air change like a wierd slide whistle. It's a cool sound.

So the Hydro-Harp would have a harp post and a harp neck and harp strings, all attached to a half-filled water bucket sound box. I expect the result would sound much like music does in the underwater cities of Naboo. Imagine a washtub bass but with the washtub flipped over and filled with water. That's the basic idea anyway. Now add about 37 strings.

Ok, if given limited skill points would you choose

1. music knowledge 4 to get jazz and the ommni


2. music knowledge 3+ master entertainer to get mando and ceremonial

I'm leaning toward 2, but I'm just wondering....

my personal preference is for the mando, but i have no skill point limitation there.

I know I'm using those all up, my squeeze is going to come from Merchant versus Pistoleer and how far up each tree I can get in addition to MM and ME

Well I can answer your merchant question:

The single most important tree in merchant is advertising 3 to list on the global map. Period.

The do management if you want more vendors - I find that having a merchant (2nd account) with management 4 is useful but that is with 2 different types of goods to sell and 2 different locations - and one vendor for storage and/or others offering me things. When I had a single shop location I got by with 2 vendors (1 for clothing, 1 for my fiance's armor) and ad 3. Didn't hurt business one bit not having more attractive vendors, or having the goods spread out on different vendors.

As for hiring - I was perfectly happy creating and deleting until I had some rather attractive wookiee vendors. Clothing, eh, who cares. They're nekked so bad clothing isn't an issue.

As for efficiency - well for that many skill points I wouldn't do it. The only useful skill is the 20% structure reduction at efficiency 4 and I speak from experience when I say that 20% reduction in harv costs is a drop in the bucket for a successful merchant. If you need the points for what is fun, do that.

So.... maybe this isn't the board for it, but I hope that helps with your decision.

In conclusion - spring for ad 3 if anything. Better to cram all your goods onto two advertised vendors than to get additional vendors, more attractive vendors, or a slight cost reduction.

that does help me quite a bit. Thanks

And as for your decision, I'll add again how I don't know how many times I've neede to play ceremonial and I can't or to play starwars1 on mando (which makes the song tollerable) and can't because I'm not a ME yet. If you put on a good sounding and interactive show then the people will stay and watch long after you've healed them so musician healing etc. etc. is nice but not required. Especially if you have other musicians in your group.