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Contents 1 vasant rai 2 Improving this article 3 Rationale for Ranking 4 Universelly the greatest sarod teacher

[edit] vasant rai

there is a website for Vasant rai www.vasantrai.com

[edit] Improving this article

I tried adding some links and categorised it, but I don't know an awful lot about the subject. For a good article on a similar topic, see Sitar. This should be a good candidate for improvement. riana_dzasta 12:34, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

I have listed it at WP:INCOTW. riana_dzasta 13:13, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Removed {{reqphoto}} - a photo of the sarod alone would still be highly desirable, though. riana_dzasta 15:15, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

OK, I'm talking to myself, but this has to be written down somewhere - why was a perfectly decent article cropped so mercilessly? Without readding information, too. Oh well, I'll see what I can take from there. riana_dzasta 15:46, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rationale for Ranking

There are no refs cited by this article, so its start class. We all know the sarod is an integral part of desi music so its top importance.Bakaman _Bakatalk 05:24, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Universelly the greatest sarod teacher

Hi there folks, I think terming Allauddin Khan as the universally greatest indian music teacher is a rather subjective attitude. I'm sure there are people who would not agree to this. Allauddin Khan can certainly be pegged as a very well known and virtouso teacher, but to make an absolute statement in such a context is unacceptable. Also saying that Ali Akbar Khan and Amjad Ali Khan are more well known maybe a personal opinion! just as my opinion differs. I started taking ethnomusic classes in boston there i was introduced to a sarod player named Buddhadev Gupta, so for maybe a year I never heard of any other sarod player besides Buddhadev and his teacher. I'm certain that theres many other examples. Like in New York city the Sarod is associated with the name Vasant Rai, in San Fransisco its Ali Akbar Khan, In london its Gurudev Singh, In Isreal theres this other player whose name escapes me, In calcutta the name Buddhadev has an istant connotation to the word sarod. I have to say howver when i was travelling in India, with my brand new dulal sarod, people did ask if I was Amjad Ali Khans student. So over all in MY opinion Amjad is the the most well known. When i mentioned Ali akbar khan or Rajiv taranath or Buddhadev people justr had a blank stare and had never heard these names, but the name Amjad Ali Khan did ring bells in peoples head. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.215.253.65 (talk) 21:52, 28 October 2007 (UTC)