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The Ten Thaats

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  • A thaat is a "mode", a type of scale, in Hindustani music.
  • Thaats always have 7 pitches and are a basis for the organizing & classifying raags of Hindustani classical music.
  • Thaat system was invented by Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande (1860-1936).

Bhatkhande was first Indian musicologist who wrote the modern treatise on Hindustani Classical Music, an art which was propagated mostly through oral traditions.

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