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# The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan c6.57

The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan c6.57

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### [c6.57](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.day-1891.c6.57)

The only difference, it will be seen, is in the fact that the sixth is in the European diatonic scale flatter than the ancient one; so that the ancient Sanskrit sixth had apparently the same ratio, theoretically, as the Pythagorean sixth of the Greeks.

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