The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan c11.128
The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan c11.128
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c11.128
The finger-board is about three inches wide, the frets are of brass or silver, eighteen (sometimes sixteen) in number, and flatly elliptical; they are secured to the finger-board by pieces of gut passing underneath—this arrangement admits of their being shifted so as to produce intervals of any particular scale (thât), hence the capability of the instrument is naturally limited.