[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) › c7.9 # The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan c7.9 The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan c7.9 - **Language:** English ### [c7.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.day-1891.c7.9) ² This view is supported by both Sir W. Jones and Mr. Fowke ("Asiatic Researches"). Sir W. Jones remarks: "I tried in vain to discover in practice any difference between the Indian scale and that of our own; but knowing my ear to be very insufficiently exercised, I requested a German professor of music to accompany on his violin a Hindu lutenist, who sang by note some popular airs on the loves of Krishna and Radha, and he assured me that the scales were the same; and Mr. Shore afterwards informed me that when the voice of a native singer was in tune with his harpsichord, he found the Hindu series of seven notes to - [Previous: c7.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.day-1891.c7.8) - [Next: c7.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.day-1891.c7.10) - [Up: c7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.day-1891.c7) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.day-1891.c7.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.day-1891.c7.9) · Pramāṇa