I think there are, not surprisingly, lots of archaic terms here (bearing in mind how city names have changed in India recently to reflect better their pre-Colonial pronunciations etc)
Tuppah seems to be a kind of district, like a county There are some interesting instances of Rekhtah in; 'Orientalist Jones': Sir William Jones, Poet, Lawyer, and Linguist, 1746-1794 Terana is too commonplace a set of syllables to show up much. Chanam is in the extreme east of, now, Bangladesh, eg not far from Bengal, and the preface is given as being in Calcutta There's a Dilsukhnagar in Andhra Pradesh, down the coast... Anyway, all very intriguing. One was aware that, for example, Panormo guitars were exported to the Indian market (designed for the climate) but there must probably have been earlier forms of guitar present too. Stephen On 26 Sep 2013, at 22:15, WALSH STUART wrote: > On 26/09/2013 21:27, Stephen Kenyon wrote: >> An amazing story. >> >> Is it possible Serodes would refer to Sarod (the instrument)? >> >> Stephen > > In the keyboard versions of the Airs, William Hamilton Bird puts > the title of the piece on the left hand side and then sometimes > puts something opposite on the right hand side: Chanam, Dilsook, > Serodes, Rutten, Paten... and Bengal. I supposed these are regions > - but maybe not. > > The publication is here: > > http://imslp.org/wiki/The_Oriental_Miscellany_% > 28Bird,_William_Hamilton%29 > > > > Stuart >> >> On 26 Sep 2013, at 19:52, WALSH STUART wrote: >> >>> And I think he is saying that the piece comes from Serodes (?) >> >> -- >> >> To get on or off this list see list information at >> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >> > > --
