Keramatullah Khan was the son of Masit Khan. He provided the examples for Robert Gottlieb's "42 Lessons for Tabla", which I used when first learning in the mid 1970s, and he was also featured in Gottlieb's subsequent book as the representative of the Farukhabad tradition. I loved the clarity of Keramat's playing, and the systematic nature with which he constructed his variations. He was also a wonderful accompanist who offered refined and appropriate support without any attempt to overpower through force of personality. In this excerpt Keramatullah Khan plays a tukra followed by a tisra-jati qaida.