> As I see it, the two leaders are mostly together, but they
> are a
> little ragged here and there, and my eyes and ears indicate
> to me
> that the singers take the beat as beginning at the bottom
> of the
> downstroke.  I don't know what Mike and Syd intended.

> My mind's eye tells me that some leaders mark the first
> beat of a
> duple measure by moving the hand away from the body, mostly

> horizontally and toward the singers he/she is facing,
> perhaps with an
> unflexing of the elbow - the hand then falls during that
> beat.  Is
> this the traditional style that has been referred to
> here?  If so,
> then the beat is unmistakable in that style - the leader
> punches out
> on the first beat.

> John