This was a bit disturbing the first 5-10 minutes i thought about it, but then it got me thinking diferently. What do you expect? A quest to play a few songs at an inn? That would be even more weird lol. And if you could actually play on the instruments you'd stop playing after 10 seconds and continue slaughtering things anyway because that's just more fun . Personally i think they should've removed the whole bard's college thing because you can't create any decent quests for it really. Would've prefered if they created a different guild/college instead.

How about playing drums has a RALLY effect that gets any faction you're cool with to tag along and fight by your side for x amount of time?

How about playing certain notes on a lute actually does damage (or status effect at least) to enemies with super sharp hearing.........LIKE THE FALMER?

How about having completed "vocal training" at the college gives you A PERMANENT 25% COOLDOWN BONUS TO SHOUTS?

Seriously. It could have been so much more.

See, the problem here is you went to the Bard's Collage instead of the bard's College.