The Music of Hindostan c14.18

c14.18

Nor is much help to be got from the books; the author takes for granted that a thing which he sees and hears every day will be familiar to his reader, and accordingly omits to differentiate the strokes in words, and he does not always state their duration, which is of vital importance for the normal drum-phrases (*theka*) and their variants (*parand*) which we shall examine later. The list on p. 231 was obtained from the court drummer, Nanne Khan, at Bhavnagar (Gujarāt), and is supplemented by statements of various others at Calcutta, Bombay, Allahabad, Lahore, Jhelum, and other places, and checked by the list in T. B. Sahasrabuddhe’s book (in Marathi) and A. B. Pingle’s *Indian Music*, the only full account of the matter in English.