The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan c6.21

c6.21

⁶ "In the arrangement of the s'rutis, modern usage is diametrically opposite to the classical one: the latter placing them before the note to which they respectively belong, while the former gives their position after the notes. It is difficult to determine when or by whom the alteration was effected. The arrangement of the frets of the vina and other stringed instruments accords with the modern acceptation of the principle. According to the rule laid down in the classical treatises, the disposition of the notes is reversed in the case of Daravi (lit., wooden—i.e., stringed) instruments, and out of this reversed arrangement, perhaps, the modern theory about the arrangement of the position of the s'rutis has been worked."—"The Musical Scales of the Hindus." S. M. Tagore. Calcutta, 1884.