: In Meerut, one man is on a quest to recreate the magic of a legendary sarangi maker #IndiaNEWS Khair Nagar in old Meerut is a hub for pharmaceutical businesses, a warren of shops lining its busy streets.
In Meerut, one man is on a quest to recreate the magic of a legendary sarangi maker #IndiaNEWS
Khair Nagar in old Meerut is a hub for pharmaceutical businesses, a warren of shops lining its busy streets. Not a trace remains here of the time when a legendary luthier crafted the most exquisite sarangis with signature inlay work at their head – a bird in a downward swoop, topped by a reverse heart icon with three dots.Rajesh Dhawan has searched high and low in its lanes for some remnant of that magic-making – a workshop, a living quarter, a tool or trick that could hold the key to the life and work of Abdul Aziz Behra, the sarangi maker whose handcrafted instruments were, and still are, played by masters such as Abdul Latif Khan and Ram Narain and prized by antiquarians.Dhawan’s quest landed nothing.“I was looking for something, anything that would give me a sense of how he crafted his sarangis,� he said. “I came up against a total blank.�Dhawan, 55, is an entrepreneur who runs a music instruments shop in Meerut, but he has also been crafting and selling some of the most sought-after sarangis in India and across the world since the mid-1990s. For him, the ultimate dream is to achieve the mellowness of Behra’s creations.A resonant bowed instrument, a sarangi...Read more
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