Jnan Prakash Ghosh, Sabir Khan and Sandeep Das are associated with which musical instrument?

Explanation

Jnan Prakash Ghosh, Ustad Sabir Khan and Sandeep Das are all well-known tabla players of Hindustani classical music.

Jnan Prakash Ghosh (1909-1997) was a tabla and harmonium player, composer and teacher from Kolkata. He was one of the most respected teachers of tabla, and his students included famous players such as Anindo Chatterjee and Swapan Chaudhuri. He also composed music for films and created new forms of orchestral music for Indian instruments. He received the Padma Bhushan. Ustad Sabir Khan is a tabla player of the Farrukhabad gharana, the son of the great tabla player Ustad Karamatullah Khan, and he is known as a fine soloist and accompanist. Sandeep Das, from Patna, Bihar, is a tabla player who trained under Pandit Kishan Maharaj of the Banaras gharana. He is a member of the Silkroad Ensemble, founded by the cellist Yo-Yo Ma, with which he won a Grammy Award in 2017 for the album "Sing Me Home". He also founded HUM (Harmony and Universality through Music), an initiative that brings together musicians from different cultures.

The tabla is the most popular percussion instrument of Hindustani classical music. It consists of a pair of drums: the smaller, right-hand drum, called the dayan (or tabla), made of wood, and the larger, left-hand drum, called the bayan (or dagga), usually made of metal. Each drum has a black spot of a special paste (the syahi) on the drumhead, which gives the tabla its unique tone. Tabla playing is organised into six main gharanas: Delhi, Ajrada, Lucknow, Farrukhabad, Banaras and Punjab.

Why not the other options?

• ✗Sitar is linked with players such as Ravi Shankar and Vilayat Khan.
• ✗Sarod is linked with players such as Amjad Ali Khan and Ali Akbar Khan.
• ✗Flute is linked with players such as Hariprasad Chaurasia and Pannalal Ghosh.