Howzabout this! Who sings unaccompanied anymore? (I mean, when they're SOBER.) There are some songs that need to be sung unaccompanied. There is a freedom of phrasing (and feeling) that comes with unaccompanied singing and some songs just don't sound as good with instrumental accompaniement. Some of the old hymns get all the kinks taken out of them when you shoe-horn them into an instrumental arrangement. Amazing Grace never sounds sweeter to me than when it is sung by a large group of singers, unaccompanied.

Jerry