At this time a
wealthy family of Bombay appointed him as trustee to look after their property. While studying old texts on music, he found that in many places the
writing or meaning was not clear; there were grammatical mistakes and a lot of difference
between the definitions and rules and what was being practised.
In 1904 he had an opportunity to visit South India. He went to
Madras, Tanjore, Madurai and other places. There he met
prominet musicians.
As a result he got some authentic texts on music, like
Chaturdandi Prakasika, Swara-mela- kala- nidhi. He got other important works copied from
libraries. |