![]() Most towns have several competing bands, Brass bands are fixtures of wedding processions. Brass band music is very much alive today. According to legend one Indian musician ripped open his instruments at Queen Victoria's coronation to prove that the "seemingly superhuman sounds he produced didn't come from a concealed mechanical device." The greatest impact of European music on India was the introduction of brass bands by the British. Europeans were enchanted by some of the music they heard from India. It was said that her voice was so beautiful and powerful it could ignite oil lamps. The most famous singer was Tansen, a Rajput princess married to the Mughal Emperor Akbar. Poems by Khusrau are the core of the qawwali repertoire. He was a disciple of the Delhi-based Sufi saint Nizamuddin Auliya. Khusrau was a talented Sufi poet and composer. ![]() Regarded as the father of Hindustani music, qawwalki and khayal, he melded Persian, Hindu, Sanskrit and Islamic influences. Īmir Khusrau (1253-1325) is credited with inventing the sitar and the tabla but it is clear if he really did (see the sitar below). 330 depict string instruments not all different from those usedtoday. Engravings on gold coins dating back to the year A.D. Indian musical instruments are divided into string instruments ( tantru), wind instruments ( susir), drums ( avanda) and gongs bells and cymbals ( ghana).
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