Musical Instrument Item

Pathfinder Core Rulebook (Second Edition), page 290

Category Adventuring Gear


Handheld instruments include bagpipes, a small set of chimes, small drums, fiddles and viols, flutes and recorders, small harps, lutes, trumpets, and similarly sized instruments. The GM might rule that an especially large handheld instrument (like a tuba) has greater Bulk. Heavy instruments such as large drums, a full set of chimes, and keyboard instruments are less portable and generally need to be stationary while played.

A virtuoso instrument gives a +1 item bonus to Performance checks using that instrument.

Item Level Price Bulk Hands
Handheld 0 8 sp 1 2
Virtuoso handheld 3 50 gp 1 2
Heavy 0 2 gp 16 2
Virtuoso heavy 3 100 gp 16 2