Off the top of my head:
Shauri's Sonorous Clouding (19, wind)
Cantata of Soothing (34, string)
Melody of Ervaj (50, brass)
Occlusion of Sound (55, percussion)
Composition of Ervaj (60, brass)
Harmony of Sound (65, percussion)
They'll only work if you either have
1.) a real instrument equipped,
2.) an armor item or weapon with the right type of modifier on it, or
3.) a tribute that grants you that modifier.
The AA Instrument Mastery and Improved Instrument Mastery may add 0.8 total to the instrument(s) modifier, but it doesn't allow one to sing the songs while naked.
These songs list the instrument as a reagent. Due to that fact, for a long time, live bards simply did not consume reagents -at all- to keep from eating their flutes. Recently, it's been reworked so that bards don't consume reagents on songs, though require them for other effects.
On modifiers:
Without AA, Bards have an instrument modifier cap of 3.6. Using Ayonae's Tutelage their modifier cap becomes 3.9. Using Echo of Taelosia their modifier cap becomes 4.2. There is talk that the latter skill will be changed soon to a 4.5 modifier cap, to reflect the fact that we're seeing 3.7 modifier instruments in Gates (3.7 + 0.8 from AA = 4.5, without a 4.5 cap gates instruments are pointless) so you may wish to use that in the changes you're doing.
Instrument Mastery, Singing Mastery, and improved versions of them, for each rank increase the modifier by 0.2, for a maximum of 0.8. The modifier stacks with any instrument mod, though does not act as if it were an instrument all by itself for the purpose of singing instrument-required songs. Without any instruments and these AA a bard's mod is basically 1.8.
Do you have a way to determine which effects on which songs are or are not modified by instruments? As a rule of thumb, Haste/slow, Mana regeneration (does not include mana drains), and focus % are not modified by instruments. Some songs (such as Denon's Desperate Dirge, 43, singing) are not modified by their instrument type at all, though they are certainly in the minority. (Edit: As an interesting quirk, the song I listed as an example, DDD, though not modified by an instrument, is modified by singing mastery.. a bug, surely, but a noteworthy one if adhering to live, hehe).
Anywho, looking forward to bards functioning smoothly in the emu =)
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