interesting.. and the question about refference tones aswell.rikhyray wrote: Will be my pleasure to answer any questions, as good as I can. I studied north Indian music, so called Hindustani-Sarod (fretless lute kind of instrument) for 12-15 years , 8- 12 hours daily practice,and classes with various masters but my final and "official" Guru was Ustad Amjad Ali Khan Later followed with solo performer career. After some years started what we call "fusion" (mix of Indian and Western music)and since I worked with South Indians (aka Carnatic) musicians , moved to Madras and while there studied South Indian percussion and composition. It was more to understand the language of my fellow artists, just to learn one of those systems is lifetime job. I am Hindustani musician with some knowledge of Carnatic only.
Another thing is essential difference in intonation (mainly using it in embelishments) and once absorbed it is impossible to change. Trained Hindustani musician will never play really Carnatic way and vice versa
One for certain..the refference tone in the european music system was in diskussion a long time and is still variing between 435 and 444...
i personally have a littel problem with 440..dont sounds wright to me.. usualy go a a bit higher or lower... cant really decide yet...
But one question regarding the indindian music..
when there is nor refference tone..
how does this turn out in practize..is there something musicans experiance as the natural wright tone and when two musicans meet there instruments are like in a lucky accident well in tune even without the norm refference?
Or is this decided for any session again what should be the basic pitch and everybody has to tune acordingly?
when this is the case.. how is decided which pitch is teh one to go for?