[peony_foxburr]

Then there's the instrument we were all born with--the voice [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]. Very few people are truly tone deaf, IMO, though we don't all get encouragement or minimal training, which is a shame. Anyhow, that's the most Tolkinesque music I make at the moment, though I fiddle around with the alto recorder now and then. The piano doesn't sound at all ME, I agree. Though I heard some harpsichord on the LotR soundtrack--and you could probably get that, plus some other suitable sounds, from a digital keyboard. Years ago, my sister gave me a copy of "The Road Goes Ever On, A Song Cycle" which was some of the Tolkien songs & poems set to music by Donald Swann (of an English comedy/musical revue team called Flanders&Swann). Not at all Celtic-flavored, but an interesting musical take nonetheless.