Ustad Bismillah Khan

The shehnai will never sound same again. It lost its greatest living master, Ustad Bismillah Khan. The person who has become as part of varanasi as its ghats and temples is no more. his preference was shehnai and its sadhana, not money...he preferred to stay back in a decrepit lane of Varanasi and play in the ghats of ganga rather than searching fortunes near Thames or Mississippi...unlike many of his contemporaries. He became one with his music.