Instrument has never had anything to do with that. If you lack decent-quality M.acc gear, then an instrument isn't going to help you much. I mean hell, my m.acc set isn't amazing compared to Phil's (but then again, who can compete with 99 R/M/E Bards? xD) but even I have little difficulty landing most of my debuffs. An idea of my m.acc gear for landing debuffs:
Soothsayer's (even unaug'd!) | Mephistis Grip (M.acc+5) | Instrument* | Empty
A'as Circlet (Can do Orvail Head) | AF3 Neck (duration) | Lifestorm | Psystorm
AF3 Body+2 (Duration, Skill) | AF3 Hands+2 (Skill/M.acc) | Balrahn's | Sangoma Ring (Can use Omega/Strendu)
Rhapsode's Cape (formerly Mesmeric) | Demonry Sash (can get Aswang from Meebles or use Aristo for CHR) | AF3+2 Legs (Skill/Acc/Recast) | Nares Clogs (Orvail's better now!)
*For Instrument - Pan's Horn for single-target Lullabies, any Harp for Hordes; Syrinx for Elegies, and any Wind Instruments for Requiem/Nocturne/Threnody.
My point is that it's pretty easy to get together a decent M.acc set for BRD, and land debuffs with fair ease. In all of that, the only thing I have trouble landing is Finales at times, as some mobs are just resistant. Requiems have always been... well, Requiems, but things like Elegy, Lullaby, and Nocturne tend to be easy to land. Hell, it's easy to sleep Delve NMs with Lullaby, as part of our strategies involves sleeping the Eft long enough for us to smack the Matamata when it's ready, or sleeping NMs that linked onto ones pulled.
As Phil said, it's easy to get most of the +3 instruments, and they're not all THAT much behind a level 99 Ghorn. We're not really in need of more instruments, as long as M.acc sets are made.

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