The Music of Hindostan c6.122

c6.122

At Raipur a Gond played the bamboo flute (*bānsrī*), an instrument with the tone of the clarinet, and blown at the end but without reed: it had six holes covered by the left finger tips and right knuckle joints. A characteristic of these tunes was the very long crescendoed tonic. Assuming the C to be in tune the higher notes were all a little flat, the F most so, and the lower one a little sharp; the C itself sharpened a good deal under the overblowing of the crescendo.