Each musical instrument has its own melodic potential and innate charm, which has to be awakened by the caressing touch of some musical genius. For the romantic and resonant santoor came in the person ...

SRINAGAR: In a modest workshop filled with the fragrance of seasoned wood, 78-year-old Ghulam Mohammad Zaz continues a craft his family has preserved for eight generations — the making of the Kashmiri ...

andit Shiv Kumar Sharma, who died last week, was undoubtedly the greatest player of the santoor in the subcontinent. This can be said with certainty because he created that instrument that he excelled ...

He single-handedly elevated a 100-string instrument little known outside Kashmir into a prominent component of Hindustani classical music. By Shalini Venugopal Bhagat Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma, an ...

For more than six decades, 85-year-old Ghulam Muhammad Zaz has been diligently crafting classical music instruments like the santoor and rabab by hand in his small workshop on the second floor of a ...