I’d like to propose the removal or at least a big decrease in the restrictions in the musical instruments. There appear to be quite a few limitations (mentioned here in the “Instrument Quirks” section) and they are even different between instruments. Allow me to represent the thought of our dear ANet member Cody:
I think it’s generally a good thing to have more music in Tyria for people—performers and listeners alike—to enjoy, by whichever means is most desirable to the performer.
If so, then I can’t see why there would be such harsh restrictions on the in-game music that is played. If I may once again refer you to gw2mb, this time to the archive, you’ll notice that four of the top-five rated songs aren’t actually playable in-game. And the sad part is that most of them are really close to being playable, but the restriction is just a little too harsh.
Removing the restrictions would in my eyes just open up new possibilities for yet more enjoyable music, and wouldn’t force producers of the music to make special, in-game versions of songs, that are either very restricted or just slowed down to compensate.
I hope that at least it’s taken into serious consideration, and I’d love to get some discussion about this in case there are problems with removing the restrictions that I’ve overlooked.
/Elyne
PS. I’m sure this has been brought up before, but for some reason when using the search bar in the audio section, searching for “Harp” brings up literally nothing, even though I’m looking at three topics with “Harp” in the title when I remove the search…
And you disabled it quite a few minutes before this announcement too, we were so confused that we killed it and checked the third boss too, and that was also disabled.