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Tuesday, February 20, 2007

The Man Who Mistook His Wife For Joyce Hatto


The Telegraph gets the Barrington-Coupe coup.


We're at Scene II: Amazement/Denial.

"I was astounded. I had no idea it was coming." He disputed the accuracy of the expert analysis of the CDs saying "the evidence that they rely on isn't proven – it would have been possible to change the speed of the recordings until they matched".



Jeff writes: "It isn't the case that you can just 'change the speed of the recordings until they matched' - the wave-form graphs don't match in such circumstances."