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New Delhi, Sep 18 (PTI) Ustad Amjad Ali Khan is widely credited with putting the sarod on the world map but the musician, amongst India’s best known, says his first love is the tabla and not the stringed instrument.Khan, in an interview to Lok Sabha MP Shashi Tharoor on Sansad TV, said he was so drawn to the tabla as a child that his "worried father" hid the musical instrument from him for a few months."The tabla is my first love.
As a child I was drawn towards the tabla that my father got so worried that it was hidden from me for a few months.
But the tabla is very important for every musician to understand the rhythm, the "lay".
I encourage many young tabla players also, they were unknown but talented people," he revealed.Asked about what made him choose music as his field, the sarod exponent said "every human being is born with sound and rhythm, some realise and some don"t realise"."There is the world of sound and the world of language.
Naturally people are more busy with the world of language.
I could not understand the world of language...