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It looks like everything people have said here is spot-on, but I just want throw in a few cents here:

BRD inventory can get very overwhelming. There are many BRDs that will neglect instruments that correlate with the songs they play - don't be one of those BRDs. You don't have to have all the HQ BRD instruments, but do have the ones relevant to the majority of songs you play - March, Madrigal, Mambo, Minuet and Elegy are all key. The Carol instument is purely situational but nice for elemental resistance boosts (especially if you facing explosive mobs). There is a instrument for Finale, but its overpriced and really not needed at all, so think of Finale as a great way to skill up your stringed instrument skill and use a harp.

Also, If you haven't done so already, I highly suggest completing every Gobbie Bag quest you can to max your inventory space. The best way to get your fame up for this is to spam, spam, spam the Selbina/La Theine cabbage quest. Get your character naked and buy as much cabbage as you can and take it down to Selbina, repeat as needed.

Best way to check fame in towns is check with the "owzie-wowie" Tarutarus in Port Bastok or Norther Sandoria. If they're handing out forks for you to quest avatars, pretty good sign you're also up to do some gobbie bags quests in Jeuno.

By my understanding there is one potential negative consequence here (and somone can feel free to correct me if this is not true), but Norg does not like Selbina very much. They send pirates to raid the ferry between Mhaura and Selbina. Raising fame in Selbina relates to fame in Bastok and Sandoria, giving you Jeuno fame, but this spamming could decrease your fame in Norg.

So you may wish to consider spamming Norg fame first to obtain NIN scrolls if you wish to also have a /NIN sub for BRD at high levels. The yagudo necklace quest is one way to spam norg fame, just as many yags as you can in Giddeus to get necklaces.

That aside, I think the only thing people missed was adding /equip Main "Earth Staff" in for Elegy and Light Staff for Finalie and Requiem. Dark staff is nice if you need to rest for MP, so use those for equip macros. These staves come at level 51. Other staves are purely optional, but nice for Threnody songs if you see a need for them.