It was one of my oldest headcanon posts and consequently I’ve retconned or added to it a lot, that pretty much every Blackfyre kid learned an instrument or sang. It was a good way to keep the kids out of trouble (Aegon would dress up in armor and run into trees and Larra would try to climb trees and attempt flips) as well as teach them cooperation (as quite a few medieval instruments required multiple people to work).
Rohanne: portative organ and a smaller modified version called the “clavicymbalum” which her father (not the Archon, but an astrologer, physician and alchemist dyer who collaborated with the future Archon, Ro’s uncle) had developed. She would have the children “help” her work the pedals and bellows to produce the sound
Aegon: drums. Helped him learn rhythm. Although not as “difficult” on the surface as the others, Daemon explained this was a very important instrument that was foundational for the other instruments to keep the beat, as well as direct armies (for marching for armies to keep pace, to direct their formation, and give commands). He made friends with the drummer boys during the Blackfyre Rebellion. He, Aemon, and Larra would also chant-and-respond (there were arguments about who got to lead and who would chorus)
Aemon: horn. His siblings joked the only time he was quiet was when he was practicing. The horn is used in ASOIAF to sound alarms and rouse camps. Daemon told him he was his sentry and could blow the horn whenever he was returning from a longer trip. He was learning the comparatively more difficult and versatile trumpet when the Rebellion began
Calla: half harp from a young age, then later on the lute. When Rohanne played the portative organ, she’d often be the one to work the bellows in the back. Would sometimes entertain guests on her instruments as a child, then as a Tyroshi matron. She told her older brothers to practice outside because they were so much louder than hers (sometimes they listened)
Larra: rebec, a sort of early violin. Daemon II started learning the fiddle at age 5, he told her that girls couldn’t play bowed instruments because it “showed off their elbows” (he’d heard it from a septa), so she elbowed him on top of his head noogie style. It became a kind of “secret handshake” to touch elbows before they played together
Daemon II: the fiddle, but he also sang and aspired to write his own music. Collaborated with many Tyroshi artists
Haegon: drums. He joined the Tyroshi navy as a teenager, and when he was oarmaster would direct the oarsmen with the drum
Aenys: he’s the giant of the family with huge hands, which meant he was adept at the keyboard instruments his mother taught, particularly the clavicymbalum
Baelon: a set of portable reed “sea pipes” sometimes with tabor
Gaemon: took a stab at every instrument in the manse, and even said he was going to join a troupe to play professionally (he didn’t). He stuck with the fiddle the longest
Alyssa: bells aka carillon, though she also sang and even wrote her own lyrics
Other OC allies I imagine were musical: Black Byren Flowers (lute, singer-songwriter), Desmyn Peake (Jeyne Waters’ son; the shawm an early oboe), Princess “Swansong” (Redtusk’s wife; singer, flute, xylophone), Druselko (Rohanne’s cousin; skin pipes and singer), Colloquino Paezon (Essosi ally; lute and singer).
I can just imagine the Blackfyre children skipping over the hill on Daemon’s land, belting out “Al Hanissim” accompanied by pipes, drums, and their portable string/keyboard instruments, and the small folk not entirely sure what’s going on (giving divine thanks for granting victory for their maternal ancestors against those who would enslave them), but at least they’re not getting into trouble. Aegon teaches some of the smallfolk kids Chad Gadya.
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