Another of the great Pakistani tabla players introduced to me by Lowell Lybarger was Karim Bakhsh Pairna of the Qasur silsila. He learned from Nabi Bakhsh Kalarewala, who in turn learned from the great Miyan Fateh Din Qasuri. Karim Bakhsh Pairna taught Baba Murid, who in turn taught the astonishing Bashir Hussain "Goga" (see above). Indeed, there is a very close similarity in the playing of Pairna and Goga, much more than in, say, the playing of Qader Bakhsh and his students Allarakha Khan or Shaukat Hussain Khan. Karim Bakhsh Pairna was a master technician with quick, restless fingers and a richly musical approach to the drums. Here, in this fabulous nau-tal-ki-savari (29 counts – sam comes on the `D in the G m `D phrase of the accompanying Hamir naghma) he plays a rela in tisra jati (triplets) interrupted by a long gat-tukra in misra jati (sevens). It's truly breathtaking!