*Sigh* I guess the proof of the pudding, and all that. I suppose all musicians that existed before Maalzel invented his confounded contraption were utter shite. Y'know, Bach and all his useless buddies, that lot.   My mates and I always finish at the same tempo as that at which we start (I have abundant recordings to prove it), and WE all think metronomes are small guys on the Paris tube.