Always carry a lute and drum, vendor is fine until you can loot the MM drum and lute in your 30s. Wear banded/whatever until planar. The only recommendations to buy are the 5AC/55HP rings and some starter MR/CR/FR gear. Bards are one of the least gear dependent classes in the game (besides the hard-as-nails to obtain epic). Bard specific weapons are cheap.
Starting stats are mostly a toss-up, CHA or STA are both decent choices. If I could put my starting stats into resists, I would have.
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