I was a GM on ClanLord for quite a while. I'm the one who designed a way for players to compose and play music together 'live', and all the 'Bard' stuff. In the days of slow modem connections, it was pretty cool.

Some guys who started more or less as a Bard in ClanLord as a teen ended up making a living out of it eventually, as a real life composer! http://www.donaldsonworkshop.com/coriakin/