Tunesmith: you refer to "Stephane's beautiful intonation". But surely "beautiful", in this context, means only "conforming near enough to the equal tempered scale". Which is fine for his music, but not necessarily so for, say, Canray Fontenot. Who, I take it, is another famous fiddler you would say plays out of tune all the time? Canray, by the way, played with a deliberately rough tone, never mind the intonation!