Premium contest/2021-08 - Music to my Ears

Got a song in your head, and just need the right instrument to bring it to life? Well here's your chance to design one!

Here are the requirements:
1. Design a short (15/15/15) OR Long (up to 60 characters) description for an instrument. Note that the instrument MUST be genre-appropriate and able to actually exist in GemStone.
2. Design the LOOK of the instrument. This is what is seen when you LOOK at it. 400 characters max.
3. Design a short (15/15/15) OR Long (up to 60 characters) description for a container to hold the instrument from item 1 above. This container MUST use one of the following nouns: Case, Satchel, or Harness.
4. Design a second instrument following the same protocols and guidelines from item 1 above.
5. Design the LOOK of the second instrument. 400 characters max.
6. Design a container for the instrument from item 4 above, following the same rules and guidelines from item 3 above.
7. Pick ONE of your two instruments and give it a name. This name must be genre-appropriate and be something that would be appropriate to exist in GemStone.

Example of a submission:

1. a tiny brass flute.
2. The flute is highly polished, without a single hint of tarnish, though here and there variations in the hue of the material indicate heavy usage.
3. a mahogany flute case with brass hinges
4. a cracked ebony mandolin
5. The mandolin has a lengthy crack running along the body of the instrument. It has been inexpertly repaired, and is held together at one point with some sort of improvised adhesive.
6. a stained instrument harness
7. The mandolin's name is LUCKY.

Entries that do not conform to the above requirements will not be considered eligible.

Contestants have until 11:59 pm PT on September 3rd, 2021 to get entries submitted.

Winners

Here are the Premium Contest winners in alphabetical order:

• Kalyrra
• Laehna
• Leifa
• Lianea
• Luxelle
• Meliyara
• Mnute
• Raelee
• Vincien
• Ysaeril

Entries

Obelin:

1. a simple etched-bone flute
2. A closer inspection reveals that despite its simple decoration the flute was cunningly crafted by practiced hands and intricately etched with infinitesimal depictions of the hunt.
3. a raw leather harness
4. a fanciful clockwork symphonia with an incongruous crank
5. A dazzling array of strings, levers, buttons, keys, knobs, and assorted unidentifiable inputs cover every surface of the contraption, and still the massive black iron hand crank affixed to one end stands out.
6. a hefty metal case with multiple mismatched latches
7. The symphonia is named HURDY-GURDY

Traiva:

1. a painted harp with a dolphin-carved column
2. The playfully leaping dolphin is covered with pewter-hued stain, while the remainder of the harp is washed with pale green-blue paint.  The neck is further adorned with paintings of various sailing vessels, and each side of the soundboard bears the image of a young blonde woman wearing a draping teal gown hovering above white seafoam.
3. a sea green doeskin satchel lined with dark grey velvet
4. a jasper-inlaid lyre with feather shaped arms
5. Red and yellow jasper carved into pairs of wings are inlaid across the front and back of the bright green lyre's soundbox, surrounding a white chalcedony feather set in the center of each side.  The arms are carved into long feathers, the tips curving out away from the smooth yoke spanning between them.
6. a white leather satchel adorned with multicolored feathers
7. The lyre's name is SONGBIRD.