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> >DH and I had a discussion about this and I'm wondering if James and Ray 
> (it 
> is Ray who teaches music, right?) would have as much luck with touchy 
> calibrations.

In my misspent youth I was a Harley rider.  An impoverished Harley rider.  So 
the bike was old, not that it really makes much difference.  It had to be 
tuned with unrelenting regularity.

And the only way to do it was to ignore the calibrations and metrics and 
listen to it.  Specifically to listen to one cylinder and ignore the other 
until 
the tone and rhythm were right for that cylinder.  The do the same with the 
other, of course, throwing the first one out of rhythm in the process.

When I went on long trips back then (Mexico, Alaska, etc.)  I left the Harley 
at home and rode a large single cylinder rice burner that required all the 
finesse of working on a lawn mower.  

James