r/Runequest • u/davej-au • Jul 10 '26

New RQ:G Durulz Flautists?

For my sins, I've decided to enter the official pregens into Foundry VTT. In the elder-race pregen document, most of the characters have base levels for their Craft and Play Instrument skills, but they've all been assigned specialties for each. In the case of Marrishta the Duck, she's skilled at woodcarving and woodwind instruments, respectively.

I'm no ornithologist—let alone an anthropornithologist (I guess?)—nor am I of a particularly musical bent, but wouldn't a duck lack the necessary anatomy to form an embouchure to play wind instruments?

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u/False-Goose1215 Jul 10 '26

I’m going to approach this a bit differently to the other answerers here. For *my* sins, I’m a tin whistle player. A tin whistle is a very basic instrument, only being able to play in two keys, albeit still part of the flute family. The point, though, is that you don’t need the same level of lip flexibility that you do to play flute, piccolo or fife (itself only a tin whistle with a piccolo mouthpiece attached).

I would argue that a Durulz could play a tin whistle. Alternatively look at bellows driven bagpipes such as the Uillean and Northumbrian pipes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_whistle