#warmasterseerus

The trimella, as I’ve briefly mentioned before, is considered our sultriest instrument. That’s because it was a firm favorite of Luminaire, our planet’s most notorious lover. He frequently played it while entertaining “guests,” and before you know it, it had become synonymous with dimmed lights, perfumed air, and deactivated commlink channels.

(For the record, it looks somewhat like a clarinet covered with iridescent accents, has a small set of strings down beneath the staple, and sounds like an oboe, flute, and harp all spent a weekend conspiring together.)

Similarly famous is the cyber-harp. Composition aside, it’s not all that different from the harps you know, but its place in Cybertronian society is nothing short of iconic. Bots have serenaded partners on these things, mourned beside battlefields, rode out prison sentences playing them, passed them on through generations of Quintesson slavery. They’ve come to be associated with all the highs and lows of our planet’s history…a celebration of the triumphs and a glimmer of beauty during the tragedies.

The caestulodia gets relatively little attention outside of Harmonex, but it’s a lovely, versatile instrument all the same. It’s a set of gloves that monitor the position of the hands (sometimes going as far as reading the actual nerve circuitry) and hook up to an external device, usually a synthesizer. How difficult it is to play depends on how intricate a model you’re using.

Lastly, there’s the sonic hammer. It’s been refined and re-refined throughout the ages, but at the end of the day, it’s just a set of drums inside an echo chamber.