I'm a little skeptical about the role of snobbery in this. It's impossible to do a properly blinded experiment, because the folks with the necessary knowledge a

I'm a little skeptical about the role of snobbery in this. It's impossible to do a properly blinded experiment, because the folks with the necessary knowledge already are able to identify any Chopin (or Bach or Beethoven) piece, and thus know a priori which is the synthetic piece. This seems rather too similar to the story about winetasters (e.g., here, sorry for the cache link: http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:SB6S068de0gJ:www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-wine4-2009sep04,0,3295012.story+wine+tasting+repeatability&cd=11&hl=en&ct=clnk http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:SB6S068de0gJ:www.latimes... )