Cheers IB, such beautiful instruments! I think my Amazon Wish-list should be well and truly packed out by next Xmas...

Wish I understood a little more (or rather anything at all!) about music theory, or indeed what I think they term 'Psychomusicology', ie: the effect of sound and music upon states of mind/consciousness (?).

The history of beliefs around music, I probably need to look into likewise. Weren't there some emotionally unsettling semi-tones which were forbad by the Medieaval Church as belonging to the Devil...? Something of a tangent to Pagan song there, but perhaps a pertinant one. I don't know enough about music to muse any further on that one unfortunately.

Anyway, there's been quite a lot of interesting discussion on this thread thus far. And I would be most interested to know if others have thoughts on what 'pagan' (possibly as a verb or adjective rather than noun), might mean to them. And is there another term which might be preferable, which succesfully encompasses and evokes the equivalent emotional and spiritual spectrum which 'pagan' appears to?