Harp Weapon Tutorial

To make one from scratch with its own custom animation is where things gets very tough. I am not a coder either, but an easier approach might be to create the harp graphic from a preexisting Tool graphic, whichever one allows for it, and then possibly using the monster special attack animation value that has the note flying at the character for the attack animation value. And if it has any issues, then going into the animation script code provided by @Everything to edit it from there, which would probably make it not usable for monsters anymore.

The alternative way to make a brand new legit harp weapon ala FFIV is just scary, as you can see from this document:
https://www.ff6hacking.com/forums/thread...tion+frame

While this is for spell animations, I'd imagine it would be basically the same ordeal. I've almost tried before in order to simply have a different sword animation for some of the Bushido skills, where he twirls the blade around, but I threw in the towel after a while. I always wanted to get back to this stuff sometime though.

I get what you're saying here (assuming I can get find a way to make the sprite files I found form together properly like in that shield tutorial) That replacing a tool with a harp and using an enemy animation would be a great idea. (There is the bug enemy I remember that shoots notes that cause berserk, though that sound is GRATING, that would have to be fixed)  The big issue I'm seeing though is that the Harp would be used as a tool NOT a weapon, which requires a skill set and a menu prompt for one ability.  I read somewhere of people trying to use the autocrossbow tool as a weapon, but that has a side effect of causing the character to step backwards every time until they vanish from existence because they are unable to step forward like normal weapons do. 

I just got a mental picture in my head of Tek Missile, except it's a music note, and that is the smile that I needed for this morning.

That's funny.  I would consider doing that for my bard.  It would be appropriate for what I doing with the story.