Iv heard of people in Skyrim telling me where they learned to play their instruments. They told me to go to the bards collage, so I went there and left disappointed to find out they wont teach how me to play Songs, Flute, Drums, or that Guitar thing

I wanted to be able to play my own music when i felt like it

You can only pick up those instruments, not play them.....epic fail IMO

I know exactly how you feel man

Yup, storyline hits you with big teasers then Epic Fail. Bummer.

Im sure there will be a mod that will come to make all of us play those instruments

That's anotherone of the big fails...

You can pick those instruments but you cant play them, and they also sticks in your inventory forever and cant be droped. LOL.

it seems like it would have been easy to implement.
just activate the instrument in your inventory and your character does the automatic animation that an NPC does.
maybe a mod will be made for this.

I don't know what should be accomplished though, besides adding to role play.
What would be a good effect for doing this?

Bard's Collage, heh. I can't help but think of arts and crafts.

I kill all musicians on sight. I keep a couple K of Septim stashed to pay off my bounties as a result.

Yeah I was really hoping to be able to play a lute or flute. But instead it was just a cluster of completely ordinary fetch quests, except you're looking for musical instruments and stuff. *shrugs*

I don't want to play an instrument in order to gain some beneficial gameplay effect, like boosted stats or anything. I just want to because it would be fun....

effects could range from illusion spells (with enchanted instraments or music scores maybe) and (if composing would be along with playing, which it should) being able to make our own music

Yeah, I hear you guys. I seriously don't know what the heck they were thinking.

"Let's design a College that completely restricts you and doesn't allow the learning of instruments. Yeah!"

The Bards College is very disappointing indeed. You never get to learn anything, and there isn't much music to be heard.

Another very disappointing thing is when you've found King Olaf's verse, and Viarmo is going to perform it for the Jarl.
The game basically just skips right past it, and you never get to hear it. The quest log tells you to watch his performance, but that objective get auto-completed, and you're told to speak to Viarmo again.

Good, none of them can sing for [censored].

A few Breton and Nord women were pretty good, other than that there voices sound like a pack of Lonsome Road deathclaws [censored] an Elder Dragon.

Yeah, they should include this feature in oone of their fixes or at least as a side feature in one of the DLCs(not as main point, like the Horse Armor DLC).

Wait so there's an entire faction called the Bard's College, and there are all these instruments laying around that the NPCs can play, but at no point do I learn to play them? What the heck? I thought that was obvious that I would learn to play!

What's the point of the Bard's college otherwise? What the heck sorts of quests do they put you up to? I mean... this has to be an oversight by Bethesda. I haven't done the BC quests yet, but I mean, it was obvious to me that I was going to get some musical quests. I was even thinking of RPing my next character along those lines. How in the world else do you explain instruments + npc music + entire guild hall and quests?

That's just dumb.

Yes, but why would you want to play it in the first place? It would turn into something like woodcutting and mining, where you just stand there and watch as your character does the work. Basically it takes you out of the game, and throws your character into it. And what would this do anyhow? Give you something like ten gold, like it does for all the other Bards in the Taverns? While it might be entertaining for a minute or so, it really wouldn't do anything, and no one would use it more then once or twice.

However I still like to decorate my home with these items, and I do think it would be cool of the Housecarl or Wife/Husband would pick it up once in a while and play while they sat around the house.

I'm smelling DLC a'la Horse armor
:disguise:

I wish Bethesda would have gotten rid of the Bard's College and focused more on the beast races. You know, how masks completely flatten their faces. Beth's priorities are screwed up.

whats the point of having instruments everywhere and a bards college?

a practical application could be using a lute or flute to calm enemies, the higher your music skill the stronger the enemy you can lull with the lute.

i want to put a sleeping dragon back to sleep with a flute or calm a angry giant with a herders song

look at mabonagi, you get to play on a ton of different instrements, compose your own music, and skills come with the music (but some need enchanted gear, like the ability to calm animals in mabonagi you need to have a music score wirtten on enchanted paper).making and testing music is fun an enjoyable, so it should be in skyrim (like promised and implied)

what an awkward thing to say about a freaking RP game. despite that, personally i think it would've give me something to enjoy while i take a cigarette break, watching my character just sit on a fallen log near some isolated small path, playing his whatever.

Same here, I'd love to entertain the locals with songs, and music.

Ohh! Perhaps even challenge a bard to a musical duel!...err that ends in a fist fight...well this is Skyrim after all. *wink*

I can't wait for that, maybe something similar to what LoTRo did with them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVC9tMCEr1k&feature=related

1-8 on the keyboard are your notes, shift and control make them sharp or flat, etc. Some people in the game when I played were seriously awesome at their instruments. Me, I got lucky playing Silent Night right, haha.