Synthesizing a 'sitar' tone and programming a microtonal scale to play it

[doctornash]

A nested trigonometric expression creates the 'sitar' tone, and the 22-note tuning system is programmed from scratch to play it:

[jancivil]

One theory of 22 Srutis in Hindustani music (Alain Danielou's) is to get alternates for 10 of 12 tones via a comma, indicated there is the syntonic comma; this affords 3:2 internal relationships for ragas. EG: your 256:243 concord with 128:81 as opposed to 8:5.