Bundu Khan
Bundu Khan was a Pakistani musical instrument sarangi player.
Early life and career
Bundu Khan was born in Delhi before partition in a family of musicians. He received his early training in sarangi from his father Ali Jan Khan starting at 8 years of age, and later from his uncle Mamman Khan, a veteran Sarangi and Sursagar player who belonged to the Patiala gharana of classical musicians.Bundu Khan played the sarangi from All India Radio, Delhi Station, when it first started broadcasting in 1935. He served the princely court of Indore for 27 years as a court-musician. He studied Sanskrit in order to have access to the classical music of ancient India. He introduced what is known as Meendh Soot Ki Sargam in which the musician, in the midst of recurring melody, shifts from one note to another. He had mastered more than 500 Ragas. "He had great mastery over Raga system, Taan-palta, various traditional compositions - especially Ragas such as Malkauns, Malhar, Bhairav."
"Bundu Khan's sarangi was smaller in size than the usual one, with some metal strings instead of gut strings and so it sounded much different."
Bundu Khan was also a musical theorist or a musicologist. His book on music, Jauhar-i-Mausiqi in Urdu, known as Sangeet Vivek Darpan in Hindi, was published simultaneously in Urdu and Hindi in June 1934.