The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan c11.142

c11.142

In Taraffedar sitars the sympathetic strings are tuned to the intervals obtained by the F string, and the frets over their respective nuts. All instruments with moveable frets (other than sitars) are arranged according to one of the above thâts. The sympathetic strings are arranged in various ways, but very commonly thus—G, A, B, C, d, e, f, g, a, b, some of the intervals being flattened or sharpened according to the râga played.