Verituner

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Greetings, 
   I wrote: 
>>     It is interesting that Virgil Smith, (whose work, by any of our
>> standards,  represents an ultimate aural tuning) produces a tuning that
>is equivalent to a machine tuning from Jim Coleman.

Richard responds:
>Again... Jim refines with his ears... always has. I tell you what. You
>do a tuning showdown with Virgil and his ears, against Jim and his machine 
one more time... but this time you deafen Jims ears for the duration of the 
job. No fair
>taking off the cuffs for unisons either.. Then lets look at the results. 
That would
>be human ears against machine. When I state the ears can do a better job 
then the
>machine it is from this perspective.

    I may be mistaken, and I hope Jim will jump in here and clarify, but I 
was under the impression that one occasion, Jim did exactly this.  Used the 
machine for everything, unisons and all.  That was the basis of the point I 
was making.  
REgards, 
Ed Foote RPT