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…. Eight Kloo Horn Players.

"I'm sure when you were a kid watching Star Wars, you just assumed that the instruments being played by Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes (note: if you just called them "the cantina band" I'm really not sure what to do with you) were variants on instruments that you have already seen or played upon. Look, it's an oboe! That one's a space saxophone! How wrong you were, my young friend. How misguided. That instrument that Figrin D'an is playing is called a kloo horn. It's totally different from our lousy Earth instruments. (It's not.) And the Star Wars universe is full of musicians who loved that instrument, at least according to the Legends canon.

Here are eight of their stories. Eight. There are eight whole stories here, somehow. Eight's gotta be a magic number somewhere, right?

Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes features two notable kloo horn players: Lirin Car'n (who sometimes moonlighted as a mercenary between gigs) and Figrin D'an himself. D'an made the mistake of signing them into an exclusive contract with Jabba, then had to find a clever way out when the whole group realized that spending too much time around the Hutt usually got you killed. D'an was known for being an amazing musician, but an awful band leader who frequently criticized his cohort. Which is rich given that he eventually loses all the band's instruments in a game of Sabacc. Don't worry, he wins them back…"
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