[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Architecture and art](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art) › [The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.day-1891) › c6.43 # The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan c6.43 The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan c6.43 - **Language:** English ### [c6.43](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.day-1891.c6.43) In a paper read to the Royal Society,⁹ in 1877, upon the Hindu division of the octave, Mr. Bosanquet shows that the fifths and thirds produced by dividing the octave into twenty-two equal intervals do not deviate very widely from the exact intervals which are the foundation of the diatonic scale, the fifth being only ·07 or very nearly 1/3 of a comma¹⁰ sharp, and the major third ·045 or nearly 1/3 of a comma flat. - [Previous: c6.42](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.day-1891.c6.42) - [Next: c6.44](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.day-1891.c6.44) - [Up: c6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.day-1891.c6) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.day-1891.c6.43](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.day-1891.c6.43) · Pramāṇa