Virgil's naturaL beats

[Jim Coleman, Sr.]

Hi to all:

Paul Revenko-Jones' post on Virgil's phenomena has stimulated me to 
thinking that maybe Virgil really has something here. Virgil and I are 
good friends and for over 20 years he has been trying to help me 
understand his view of what he hears. I continue to trip over his use of 
the word beatless, but now I'm thinking that there may be a sense in 
which he does hear something beatless. I would like to get the HT people 
involved in this discussion at this point, because there seems to be 
something akin to this in the equal-beating scheme of historical tunings
which gives the impression of no beats when actually there are beats.

I have heard the HT people say that when there are proportional beatings
in a temperament chord, the beatings counteract one another. What say 
you, Ed Foote, Bill Bremmer, Paul Bailey, Owen Jorgensen? Could Virgil be 
saying something which you all recognize as one of the benefits of equal 
beating HT's? Let's try to pursue this without the personalities issues 
coming up.

Jim Coleman, Sr.