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Does Exquisite Accompaniment works with bard feats such as Lingering Performance or Saving Finale?
Exquisite Accompaniment:
"You create a phantom instrument, a glowing construct of magic in the form of a portable musical instrument of your choice. The instrument floats beside you, moving as you move (even if you teleport). It cannot be damaged, but can be dispelled. The instrument plays as you direct, and as long as it plays, you do not have to expend rounds of bardic performance from your daily allotment to maintain an effect. Activating a bardic performance or switching to a new effect still costs a round of your overall bardic performances per day."
Linger Performance:
"The bonuses and penalties from your bardic performance continue for 2 rounds after you cease performing. Any other requirement, such as range or specific conditions, must still be met for the effect to continue. If you begin a new bardic performance during this time, the effects of the previous performance immediately cease."
Saving Finale:
"You must have a bardic performance in effect to cast this spell. With a flourish, you can immediately end your bardic performance when a creature within range affected by your bardic performance fails a saving throw, allowing the subject to immediately reroll the failed saving throw."
On one hand, the feats implied that you should be performing, not your instrument. On the other, the instrument pretty much plays for you and you are spending your bardic performance rounds to start it. So does it work with these feats? Thanks for the responses in advance.
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Somewhat related, but what does Shadowbard do that Exquisite Accompaniment doesn't? It sounds like Shadowbard lets you have two performances up at once, but Exquisite Accompaniment doesn't, it just does the work for you. Shadowbard's performance specifically can't be used to trigger the Finale spells, but Exquisite Accompaniment doesn't have that text. I guess I'd like to know the intended use of both of these spells. I am almost positive my interpretation of Shadowbard being able to have a second performance is right, but I'm not sure about EA.
Anyways, my opinion about your question is that the Lingering Performance does work, but the Finales do not. I'm not 100% convinced about the Finale part though.
Mechanically, Exquisite Accompaniment is equivalent to spell that reads "for the duration of this spell, you do not expend bardic music rounds to sustain a song". It works with everything that works with your bardsong, because "The instrument plays as you direct".
Compare to Shadowbard, which is effectively a second song, sung by a second person. You specifically can't use it "to trigger spells that require you to begin or cease a bardic performance."