Yep your 100% correct. I'm the one who mistakely thought you could sing the
song without a lute. My bad.

Ryan answered one of my questions (the song is not used to remove positive
buffs from mobs). I haven't seen a reply to the second question I asked so
once more:

Has anyone tried playing the 22d level song while under the influence of a
negative spell, with a lute equipped, and themselves targetted (by hitting
the F1 key or left-clicking on their name). The times I have tried to use
this song in the past I have not had myself targetted. I just assumed it
worked like our other songs and did not require targetting yourself. I
haven't been hit with a negative spell since I posted the question so
haven't had the chance to test it out for myself.

Galtin of E'ci

> From: Ryan Honeyman <slasher@...>
>
> >One other possibility. Are we 100% certain that the song
> >is supposed to remove negative buffs from us? What if the
> >song removes positive buffs from a mob?
>
> 110% sure. This song is party only. Kinda tough to apply it
> to NPCs, when it's _only_ party only. The static pulse is
> meant to clear out negative effects (which it doesnt).
>
> This song is lute _only_, you cannot sing it.
> We need to be more careful when posting things like this,
> clearly you can tell if you get the message:
>
> You must be using a String Instrument when playing this song.
>
> In order to make more sense of things like this, everyone needs
> to take note of everything that occured. Saying this song can
> be sung is just plain incorrect. It starts more rumors, which
> we must dispell... it's ashame this song does help that ;-)
>
>