> Indian singers - see Levy: Intonation in North Indian Music - do not > seem to use the 22-tone equal at all. They certainly do not sing > 436-cent major thirds, which occur repeatedly in the melodic texture of > 22-tone equal, unless very flat fifths of 655 cents are employed. Of > course the centre of 22-tone equal in India is nowadays supposed to be > the South.
No Indian theorist I've read ever claimed 22 equal has anything to do with Indian music. Some mention a 22 note scale, but most emphasise that it is _not_ equally tempered.
One of the features of traditional Indian thinking is a lack of historical sense, so everything is considered as the present and obsolete ideas are not highlighted as such. South Indian theorists, though, do make a much bigger point of the 22 srutis. I haven't seen any quantitative research on the pitch perception of South Indian musicians.
As there is no modulation in Indian music, 436-cents thirds will never arise, even if you follow Gregg's highly suspect argument.
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