Ah, a minstrel! This should be good. 

You can get more than 12, you can sell off a single Stat down a maximum of 3 levels but gain 3 additional skills. This means that you are horrible at something though.

However, I don't think that is necessary. You can easily compile some of his related elements into one thing. Such as Storytelling: Plain Chant, Storytelling: High Chant, and Knowledge: Stories. It would be reasonable to combine them into just "Storytelling." He would need to know stories in order to tell one, and the differences in technique are not likely to really affect the outcome of a scene.

Many of these skills can be parked into Mental, Perception, or even Cunning. So keep that in mind. Mental would represent stories and music he has learned and is reproducing. Perception would be accurately emulating another person's work (kind of like forgery or impersonating), and Cunning would represent his own creations.

You [i]do[/i] need to divide Unarmed and knife combat though.

I look forward to seeing the rest.