You can quite literally AE kite to level a bard 1-50, entirely naked, without even using instruments, and it would still be faster than any class could go 1-50 short of twinking with fungi+fungus staff or being power leveled.
If that's not good enough for you, you could spend like 5pp on a merchant-bought drum, lute, and horn.
If you insist on spending money (or you refuse to level by ae kiting), get a fancier drum first then buy budget dex/cha/hp/ac/str gear (like treeweave, 5/55 rings, crafted dex/cha face+rings, etc.) and some fast weapons and spend a bit of time fear kiting or grouping or whatever so your melee skills aren't all at 30 when you get up to 50.
Edit - depending on your method of ae kiting, you might want to spring for a jboot MQ so you have a consistent speed to work with and get used to as you AE.
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