Perhaps Khan Sahab never performed on so called ‘and half’ taals, which don’t even have the stature to be called as ‘Taal’.

combined with behavioral etiquette on stage

Like I dont think he was the first one to play thumri on sitar. Do we have some proof that he was the first person to play thumri?

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Perhaps Khan Sahab never performed on so called ‘and half’ taals, which don’t even have the stature to be called as ‘Taal’.

How can someone say thse taals dont even have stature of being called as taal? Just because VK didnt like these taals, people say those taals are not taals... As per this logic, we can say whatever VK didnt play was not at all music...

He added the rhythm chemistry to his music in such a proportion that never came to his listeners as mechanical or tedious.

Mr. Dhawal Dhingra…Here you go.

As you have referred Shahid Ji's name, I will quote him twice below.
1)         Regarding your point related to Khansahib’s perfect position of hands:
Ustad Shahid Parvez (who is in turn Ustad Vilayat Khan's nephew) says:
“It is not surprising that the music of this (Imdadkhani Etawah Gharana) gharana is spreading faster than rival styles. The main reason is the scientific technique. This has to do with the posture, setting of the hands, and the handling of the acoustic and harmonic ambience of the melody. The realization has now dawned that this is the best way to handle the sitar.”
We the members of Etawah Gharana (including top-notch artists and a beginner) treat Khansahib’s setting of hands as ideal. We try to keep the hands in the same way. The slight difference in posture varies due to difference in structure of body and structure of hands of individuals.
Do you find similarity of Shahid Ji’s posture with Rajiv Gandhi’s rather than Vilayat Khan’s?

@Dhawal Dhingra

Once you are saying "Not evene Ustad Shahid Parvez keeps his hand in same way (as Ustad Vilayat Khan).".

Again you are saying "Agreed that Ustad Shahid Parvez right hand position is similar to VK."

- Before answering to any of your further questions, I would like to ask, do you know (or are you sure of) what you are trying to say?

Just in regards to thumris, there is some thought that the Reza Khani gats were actually modeled on the structure of Bandish ki Thumris. As such, most of the 'early' sitar styles featured a heavy reliance on that forms features, e.g. medium to fast tempi, teental based compositions. Perhaps one of the early pioneers to adopt the Bol Banao style Thumri on the sitar were the Imdad Khanis but from what ever recording material there is not to my knowledge anything left to suggest that Enayat Khan played in the slow tempo of that style.

@ragamala: I wonder how much Ravi Shankar's dance backgroud has to do with his penchant for unusual taals and layakaari. OTOH, Vilayat Khan was, of course, very much from a traditional sitar family with a traditional sitar repertoire.