Ustad Enayat Khan
(Hindustani - Sitar,Surbahar)
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Ustad Enayat Khan was one of the most influential 20th century instrumentalists of Hindustani music.
Enayat Khan was born into a musical family. His father was the legendary sitar-surbahar player, Ustad Imdad Khan, the founder of Etawah/Imdadkhani Gharana. Enayat Khan was naturally trained by his father.
Ustad Enayat Khan made several innovations to Sitar, the instrument, and its playing technique. He standardised the size, length and the breadth of all sitars and surbahars. He made the length of the string uniform and added the extra top gourd which is very popular with the artistes today. He introduced several new features in the techniques of playing as well - he brought tihais into use for the first time and tan akin to the sapat tan in vocal (see Links).
Unfortunately, Ustad Enayat Khan died too early, at the age of 43. His two sons, Vilayat Khan and Imrat Khan were too young to get full benefit of his genius. Vilayat was still a teen and Imrat just a year old when Enayat died. But they were to still master Sitar and surbahar and become great artists later on. RPG / EMI has brought out some old recordings of Enayat Khan in the form of a two CD album Chairman's Choice - Great Gharana - Imdadkhani (CMC 882507-08).
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| Teachers & Influences | Ustad Imdad Khan |
| Disciples & Followers | Vilayat Khan (son), Amiyakhanti Bhattacharya (1916-1969), Jitendramohan Sengupta, Bimalakanta Raychoudhuri, Ganandakanta (1897-1939) |
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