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Posted on 2020-12-042022-06-13 by Bernard Bel

A Mathematical Model of the Shruti-Swara-Grama-Murcchana-Jati System

E. James Arnold

Journal of the Sangit Natak Akademi, New Delhi 1982. This paper is quot­ed in The Two-Vina Experiment.

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