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The Strings skill is trained by PLAYing musical stringed instruments. Stringed instruments produce sound when tautly-drawn strings are plucked, bowed or strummed, causing them to vibrate. This class of instruments includes zithers and lyres (strummed), fiddles and violins (bowed) and harps (plucked). They are the creation of the goddess Faenella.

Bards use string instruments to play certain Enchantes, and their skill with the instrument can affect their ability to perform the enchante properly.

String instruments may also be played just to be played, and there are several mood and tone options available. Bards have extra options available to them for playing instruments that are not available to other guilds.

Bards and non-Bards of sufficient Winds skill can increase the spirit regeneration of all those in the room by flawlessly playing a minuet (or higher) on any wind instrument. Bards may also use stringed instruments to create a dance floor in any performance-worthy space, as long as they meet the Strings skill requirement. Clerics and Paladins can gain devotion or soul state respectively by flawlessly playing a psalm or hymn for an Immortal in a holy place.

Training

The best experience per time ratio is achieved by finding an instrument/song combination that is played "with only the slightest hint of difficulty."