what does it mean?

Many people asked me about this blog title. So let me start with a brief and then proceed with technicalities in the future posts.

By popular usage, there are 7 basic sounds('swaram's) that vary in their pitch and can be used to explain any musical note. They are 'sa ri ga ma pa da ni' (collectively sargam) in indian classical and 'do re me fa so la ti' (collectively solfege) in western classical. This blog's title derived its name from the middle one, 'ma' or 'fa'.

If you think a moment about this musical thingy, you may have a lot of questions about them.

On what basis are they classified ? Why there are only 7 swaras ? Why not more or less? what is an octave ? How many octave exists like this? What decides the sound of 'sa' ? Why does 'sa' comes again after 'ni' ? What if I sing an intermediatary sound between sa and ri ?!

I couldnt explain all at once in this post. But I will provide more details in the later posts.