The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan c13.s1.16

c13.s1.16

A set of forks was sent by the Râjah to the Inventions Exhibition at the same time as the S'ruti Vina, but as they had been tuned by means of sliding weights, without any appliance to fix them in position, these forks were quite useless, for the weights had shifted on the journey from India, and, in fact, shifted whenever the forks were struck.