Benares shehnai lineage

Type

teaching lineage

Voice or instrument

Shehnai

Where it grew

Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh

Musicians documented

3

A hereditary line of temple and ceremonial shehnai players in Varanasi, documented through the family of Bismillah Khan.

Ordered oldest first, so the list reads down the generations: the earliest documented musicians of the tradition, then the players who carried it on, then those active today. The second view shows only the teacher-to-student links the archive can source.

• Ali Bux Vilayatulate 19th to 20th centuryShehnaiNo page yet

  Shehnai player at the Vishwanath temple in Varanasi and teacher of his nephew Bismillah Khan.

  No teaching relationship was proposed for this musician, so no relationship check was run; biographical research is still outstanding.

  Sources: Bismillah Khan — Wikipedia · Ustad Bismillah Khan & His Shehnai

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• Bismillah Khan1916–2006Shehnai

  Made the shehnai a classical solo instrument and became one of India's most loved musicians.

  Relationship checking is complete against the source text read for this musician; wider biographical research is still outstanding.

  Sources: Bismillah Khan — Wikipedia · Ustad Bismillah Khan & His Shehnai

• S. Balleshborn 1962ShehnaiNo page yet

  Shehnai player active in classical and film music.

  Taught by Bismillah Khan

  Relationship checking is complete against the source text read for this musician; wider biographical research is still outstanding.

  Sources: S. Ballesh — Wikipedia · Dr. Krishna Ballesh Bhajantri - Chennai - hindustani-music

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