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A Comparative Study of Some of the Leading Music Systems of the 15th, 16th, 17th & 18th Centuries c6.s2.6

A Comparative Study of Some of the Leading Music Systems of the 15th, 16th, 17th & 18th Centuries c6.s2.6

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c6.s2.6

This is exactly how our modern musicians tune the wires of their vina. Some of our players put anumandra 'ga' on the first wire in the place of the ancient anumandra 'sa'. The three side wires were then called srutis. We now call them "chikars". Their tuning is immaterial for our purpose here.