OFF/HW: double bass...who's on first? what's on second?

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Hi ya,

I think I understand.

You want to study Eastern music!

Westen music is hung up with the octave... 8 notes with semi tones and
thats what you get stuck with.

Eastern music is quite different.

A sitar has moveable frets... you slide the frets up and down to get
different tunings.

Music is aural not written

The bass strings on a sitar are for meditation only

Chienese music has 5 notes per octave (sorry I'm hung up on western
terminology) not 8

Its the notes between the notes you can get in eastern music that are
impossible in western.

Chris