The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan c11.10

c11.10

The reason why this is so appears to be that the manufacture of musical instruments is chiefly in the hands of ordinary carpenters, most of whom are totally ignorant of the most elementary principles of music, and who, even if they possessed the requisite knowledge, could seldom afford either the time or money to spend upon experiments tending to improve their instruments: their principal consideration seems to be quantity instead of quality.