Hirendra Kumar Ganguly, known more familiarly as Hiru Babu, was also a prominent disciple of Abid Hussain Khan from 1919 to 1936. A barrister, he told me he was once responsible for the liquidation of the Bank of China. He always adamantly maintained his amateur status, never accepting money for his art. He was a knowledgeable and generous teacher whose students and their students in turn are even now fervently devoted to him. One of his students, Santosh Krishna Biswas, was the teacher of the excellent Swapan Chaudhuri. I had the privilege of spending time with Hiru Babu in 1981, doing an interview and generally chatting with him about tabla. He kindly granted me a rare opportunity of both hearing and recording his playing. This is an excerpt. He announces and plays a tricky "dhene gene" rela for which one needs superb technique: a technique he had not lost despite his age of about 76.