The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan c6.65

c6.65

Mr. A. J. Ellis has given a table in the above-mentioned paper¹⁴ of the comparative differences in the chromatic scales formed by the division of a string into parts, according to both the ancient directions and to what the Râjah Sir S. M. Tagore states¹⁵ to be the modern Bengali use. The figures are in cents—that is to say, the hundredth parts of an equal semitone. He says:—