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Do swarasthanas neatly align to the western octave?
Noob question here! Do the Carantic swarasthanas really align well with the western 12-tone equal temperament? i.e. will the frequency of the tara sthayi shadjamam be twice that of the previous shadjamam?
This doesn't make sense that a music system that grew in isolation (at least until the contact with western musicians in the past couple of hundred years) will come up with the same primitives as another
u/alkadius — 1 day ago