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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 7559083" data-attributes="member: 19675">I once played a dwarf character who emphasized his clan’s music was centered on percussion, especially the steel drum.  Given their cultural affinity towards hammers, heavy metallic armors, mining, refining metals and the like, it seemed a natural fit.*After 1000 years, RW humans managed to go from purely acoustic music to electrically amplified music, including complex synthesizers that can mimic any sound and at least one composer (Brian Eno) who has created a music-making algorithm that will produce music in his style for as long as it has power to run it.  We’ve also gone from chant and other forms of “classical music” to jazz, prog, C&W, Punk, new wave, metal, and so much more.It’s conceivable that the Drow might progress just as far (magi-)technologically speaking.  However, with considerably fewer generations, it’s possible that Drow aesthetic tastes might not change and diversify as much.So I would expect to find some Drow musicians using modern instruments for playing updated “classics” or neoclassically inspired music much like ELP, YJM, 2Cellos, Rick Wakeman, Muse and so forth.Others might create new genres & instruments based on what sounds cool in a subterranean environment surrounded by stone.  Percussion- especially subtle and intricate- might be at the fore.  So might instruments that mimic the sounds of flowing water...or incorporate flowing water as part of the instrument itself.  Think...Mike Olfield, Phillip Glass, the first couple of decades of Tangerine Dream and analogues to ambient, doom/sludg, drone, post-rock and shoegaze.* my expansion of this into something that sounded like Jungle remixes of Cutty Ranks’ “Limb by Limb” (with bagpipes added) PLUS developing an an unarmed combat system similar to capoeira did not, but was fun nonetheless.[sblock][video=youtube;G8ZOBNdeu38]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8ZOBNdeu38[/video][/sblock]</blockquote>

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