Among the new experiments, we are making with our music "orchestration" is one which is engaging the serious thoughts of our musicians and musicologists. Whatever idea this term "Orchestra" might have conveyed in the ancient days, today it is a polyphonic form of music, and, as such, based on principles of Harmony. It would perhaps not be correct to qualify the music our modern composers are creating for groups of musical instruments as "Orchestral" though it is true that attempts at orchestration or harmonization proper are noticeable in some of the back ground accompaniments in the film hits, and on account of this, and to that extent, the music becomes non-Indian. But the best talents are being employed elsewhere to create a type of music that will suit the modern trend of corporal life but which, at the same time will not wear borrowed feathers. Indeed ! This is almost a challenge to our leading musicians that be. This new demand has raised group instrumental music to the level of a great subject of deep study, scientific investigation and artistic manipulation on the part our musicians.

The first and foremost consideration in this context is the quality of Indian musical instruments. There is a saying that " a bad workman quarrels with his tools". But some of our great instrumentalists have proved the contrary, i.e., a skillful artist (Workman) creates a beautiful image out of a miss-shaped and rough stone. Even, with bad musical instruments in their hands, they have kept their audiences spell-bound by their delicate and caressing touches on the naught instruments. The late Babu Khan of Indoor could take up any Sitar even if it were absolutely out of order, lacking in some wires and frets and play on it Alps and gates of a Raga correctly in tune by due adjustments of fingering. But all this is possible if at all in solo recitals. For a piece of music to be produced on several instruments of different types played together the prime necessity namely, perfect musical instruments, perfect in proportions, measures and size and quality of the material and size and quality of the material used for them cannot be overlooked.