"The strange, never-ceasing drones used in the choral singing of Tibet belong in the Indian, not the Chinese sphere of Tibetan civilization."
— Curt Sachs

January 1, 1970

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(SACHS:1943:145).SACHS 1943: The Rise of Music in the Ancient World, East and West. Sachs, Curt. W.W.Norton & Company, New York, 1943. Quoted in [https://talageri.blogspot.com/2020/02/musical-scales-that-and-raga-ii_88.html