Though Sax promoted his creation as an orchestral instrument, unreliable intonation hindered its integration into the orchestra.
A better reply is surely that not every disturbance in the air is audible by us: that a measuring instrument is unreliable over some range is no argument that it is unreliable over every range.
The instrument was unreliable with a problematic production, particularly when a shipment of 150 units to Japan caused interference with local television reception.
To be responsive, a questionnaire should be reproducible [ 24, 25]: if an instrument is unreliable, it will be less responsive.
Clamping of whole straw stems in the DMTA instrument gave unreliable results, possibly because of the natural variability along the plant stem.
Self-reported studies are notoriously unreliable instruments, but, even so, the results were alarming.
In China, Mr Caballero argues, this is done indirectly through the state, which buys foreign securities, such as Treasuries, then issues bonds of its own, which are held by Chinese banks, companies and households.Because emerging economies' supply of financial instruments is so unreliable, people may hoard more of them as a precautionary measure.
Despite its acknowledged value, the magnetic compass long remained a fragile, troublesome, and unreliable instrument, subject to mysterious disturbances.
In a brief foreword, the authors posit that "price, dictated by those with the wherewithal and willingness to pay it, is an unreliable instrument in determining value".
It is probably more prudent, however, to interpret them as theoretical maximum correlations given such weak samples and unreliable test instruments: "elevated idealized correlations rather than actual correlations" (Sternberg et al., 2001, p. 10).
