History of the Surbahar | Pandit Kushal Das | Musical Wonders of India

#darbarfestival | Large, heavy, and notoriously difficult to play, the surbahar’s deep-toned strings can bend upwards over an octave. Kushal Das is among very few living masters.
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Kushal Das is equally adept on the sitar and its larger ancestor, the surbahar. His learning started in the family, a varied group of Maihar gharana musicians. His grandfather played the esraj, his uncle trained under sarod great Ali Akbar Khan, and his father was a sitarist who received instruction from Ravi Shankar. But his training was atypical in some ways - his family never pressured him to take up classical music, letting him play through film songs to acquaint himself with the techniques. However he soon realised his calling, and worked hard to capture the nuances of his idols - Vilayat Khan, Nikhil Banerjee, and Ravi Shankar. Kushal uses a first-hand understanding of vocal music to expand the mellifluous phrasings of his string playing, bending patiently around both his instruments in a gharana-blending style. Hear more of him here:
-Jog (surbahar) | • Raag Jog on the Surbah...
-Bhimpalasi (sitar) | • Sublime Raag Bhimpalas...
-Shuddh Basant (sitar) | • Springtime Shuddh Basa...
Recorded for Darbar in 2015 on location in India
-Kushal Das (surbahar)
The video is part of ‘Musical Wonders of India’ curated by Darbar and the V&A Museum in London. View the full online exhibition at www.darbar.org/... & www.vam.ac.uk/m.... Special thanks to the exhibition’s donors: Arumugam Raveendran, Charu Shahane, Late Charanjit (Kugi) Vohra, The Helen Hamlyn Trust, Jagdeep Shah, Mohinder Virdee, Nishant Bhaskar, Nomadic Dairy, Ranbir Attwal, Sandeep Kandola, Satish & Divya Jeram, Seetal Mann, Sreecumaar, and Sandeep Virdee.
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I am in love with this sound. I think it is the sound that music was created for. I must find and learn the surbahar.

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i haven't heard anything more beautiful before

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Love you sir 🙏🙏🙏

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surbahar

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Who is meditating here... ? Artist or Instrument...?