I've been trying to give my bard some method of magical attacks to
supplement his dissonance (I'm currently level 11 -- can't wait until
I get below).

So, questions:

1. How much does dissonance with and without the lute/mandolin
at each level? I've heard 16 damage at level 30, but that
doesn't help when you're having a hard time getting up to
20 in the first place.

2. I took the very long trip to Innothule and spent a few hours
killing frogloks for netted armor. Now, mind you, I made a
pretty good profit selling all the rusty weapons I could haul
to Oasis, and I have an almost complete set of netted armor
to auction off. But I thought that having netted gloves
(which are magical) would let me fight hand to hand against
magic-only monsters.

3. Are there any weapons/armor out there that we can use as bards
to supplement our instrumental damage songs?

Many thanks in advance.