I didn't mind it at all. This is a small group, and mostly we are following
a few threads at a time, without everybody going off on a tangent. As such,
I think it was obvious who is being quoted, most of the time.
I liked your post on rAga identification. After I sent my mail where I
compared identifying the chandas to that of identifying a rAga, I realized
that identifying a rAga, given the ArOhaNa and avarOhaNa notes is a trivial
task. But a given song in a given rAga (I am treading into unfamiliar
territory here, please correct me when I make a mis-statement - this is a
general plea to the musically-talented, from one who is musically-challenged)
doesn't have the notes repating in the same manner. I believe the notes can
go back and forth and partial sequences of them can repeat and so on. In such
a case, the problem becomes more complicated.
But even more complicating would be the problem of "identifying" or
"recognizing" the sequence of notes that occur in a given song, given
an audio signal, from some medium. How accurately would the notes be
identified?
In this respect, identifying the sequence of laghu/guru sequence of
syllables in a poem is easier in comparison. But, given a sequence of
those, identifying the meter is harder in comparison (to that of
identifying the rAga from the notes, I think)
Years ago, in "yuva" I saw a cartoon, where the politician who just
finished a speech, concludes "well, these are my opinions, let me know
if you don't agree with them, I would gladly change".
Well the above are "my views". In some cases, I wouldn't mind changing them.
Ramakrishna