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hassan azad
Thanks. Yes, it is very nice. I also found it a few days ago while googling Ramdasi Malhar.

There is also a very interesting essay on Ustad Vilayat Khan by Deepak Raja :

http://www.medieval.org/music/world/vk.html

It addresses many points which have been discussed in the Forum.

Here is an excerpt from this essay:

"The dominant influence on Vilayat Khan's musical vision came from Kirana maestros, Ustad Abdul Kareem Khan and Ustad Abdul Waheed Khan. He had memorized every single 78 RPM recording of Abdul Kareem Khan, and could render it verbatim. Vilayat Khan captured the essence of Abdul Waheed Khan's music through his principal follower, Ustad Ameer Khan. "

Here is another excerpt, very relevant to several threads :

"Vilayat Khan's gharana has a tradition of specializing in a few raga-s for concert performance. His grandfather, Ustad Imdad Khan, for instance, became the most influential sitar and surbahar player of his times by concentrating on just two ragas: Yaman and Puriya. Likewise, his father, Ustad Enayet Khan, an equally influential sitarist, performed very few raga-s. The gharana has performed almost entirely in Teentala. Vilayat Khan's own repertoire of raga-s was probably larger than either of his immediate ancestors because he was addressing a larger and more diverse audience through a variety of media.

Vilayat Khan sought greater and greater depth in the exploration of a limited range of mature melodic ideas rather than enlarge the span of coverage. In line with this philosophy, he never considered his musicianship adequate for rendering a particular raga. Pt. Arvind Parikh who has watched his Ustad practice for a concert, reports that Vilayat Khan tried out every phrase of a raga in a variety of ways until it delivered the desired melodic and acoustic result, and practiced it for as long as it took to perfect it before a performance. Only the flashes of spontaneous brilliance relied on chance. The hard core of every raga was subjected to serious exploration in isolation and ruthless preparation for punctilious execution."
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SitarMac Senior Member 447 posts
SitarMac
Check this out.....Sorta' a dig on Rajan P's thing, but nice anyway.

http://www.vmurthy.blogspot.com
Just a listener now....Was fun while i played though!
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