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Sabir Khan
 

1959-; Farukhabad tradition

(Ghulam Ahmed) Sabir Khan learned both with his grandfather and father, and emerged early as a prodigious talent with clear, fast and furious hands. Even though both his teachers died when he was still a teenager, Sabir had already absorbed a wealth of knowledge from them. He was also very helpful to me when I was doing my research, and one day I hope to publish parts of my 1981 interviews with him in some form. This clip is from a live performance in Calcutta on March 4, 1982. Here he plays two substantial tukras followed by a farmaishi chakradar.