There weren't any in-game hints about it, either. Nothing that said "go to the village" to buy it. Kind of weird if you ask me, but I hope that it ends up working out for you! And thanks for the sturdy lute, I'll have to use it next time my physician's husband cheats on her in the Peteran church. By "use it" I mean smash it on his head!! He gives the Peteran priest a bad moodlet every morning, the jerk.