The Music of Hindostan c6.6

c6.6

One caution with regard to these tunes. It would be a mistake to play them on a keyed instrument: they should be played on the violin, or sung, or whistled, or merely thought. Not only because there is then a hope of their being rendered in natural intonation and of getting the sharp edges of the tones rounded by some sort of portamento, but also because the temperament of a keyed instrument, in Europe the piano, in India the harmonium, has a unique power of making an unharmonized melody sound invincibly commonplace.