Lets educate our curious western music aficionado on why Indian music just sounds better objectively: In the Indian system, the base note is "sa" corresponding to "C" on the western scale. The scale is divided into 22 shruti, because this is the minimum pitch change that a human ear can distinguish. The ratios between the shruti are designed to have the best harmonics and are at whole number ratios. (The actual system is too complex to be described in a tweet.) The notes keep two shrutis fixed, "sa" and "pa", which is to say the base wave and the 1.5 multiplier (called perfect 5th in western classical). Because these are pure and have no harmonic overlap (or distortion). The rest of the notes float on the various shrutis based on various factors too advanced for me to describe. There are seven notes (on 22 shruti) in Indian music because its a tradition from the musical chanting of the samaveda. This means that individual musicians can innovate a raga (something like a tune) and still be compliant with the raga. Therefore people like to comment on how person X has a rendition of a raga etc. The cool thing is that when many instruments are played, the individual musicians can adapt impromptu, giving each performance its own epic character. This also makes Indian classical music conceptually harder to master, because its not sufficient to just read sheet music and develop muscle memory of playing. The very best Indian classical musicians are in a class of their own. The western scale is a scale of convenience and approximation and has not much to do with pure musical notes from theory. (As an aside, old instruments just started marking the lowest key as "A" instead of the anchor note "C". When major keys and chords were constructed, the network effect of the labeling was already in. So they now stuck with this.) Next, they decided to build the scale by dividing into 12 notes using what is called 12-Tone Equal Temperament(TET). ie the pitch simply increases by the same amount until the next octave where the C is at twice the frequency of the lower C. This choice was because of something called the Pythagorean comma, where they wanted (3/2)ˣ = 2ʸ to get resonant harmonies from the perfect 5th. Since these never collide, they chose 12 as the best approximation. There is no real reason there needs to be 7 white and 5 black keys, they could have 6 white and 6 black keys. It would be the same but perhaps harder to find the right keys. The scale had to be distorted such that the errors spread evenly across all the notes. Which means that D is a bit flat and E is significantly sharper than the pure ratios. Bach to Mozart to Beethoven composed music just before this final adjustment so it will not sound the same on modern instruments. An honorable exception in western classical is fretless stringed instruments such as the violin which sounds so good because they are not subject to this distortion. So the western musical tradition is basically the inverse of the Indian tradition. A rare genius writes something that sounds reasonably good on a distorted scale and a bunch of others replay it verbatim from muscle memory. Hence they don't speak about ragas, which can be used to construct other music, or gharana (music lineage), etc. Western music is considered good when it is essentially copy paste of the masters.