TY  - BOOK
AU  - Namita Devidayal
TI  - The sixth string of Vilayat Khan
SN  - 9789357763271
U1  - 927.8782 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Chennai
PB  - Context
KW  - sitar
KW  - string music
KW  - biography
N2  - Meditative and playful, generous and ruthless, he was many things to many people. He broke hearts and he broke rules. He tinkered as furiously with his car as he did with his instrument, which he transformed technically to create the new sitar standard. And always there was the music, at the centre of his being, protected and unharmed—music that contained the sound of 'fairies dancing, elephants walking. Vilayat Khan saw music. He was the man who made the sitar sing.


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