Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia is associated with which musical instrument?

Explanation

Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia, born on 1 July 1938 in Allahabad (now Prayagraj), Uttar Pradesh, is the most famous player of the bansuri, the bamboo flute of Hindustani classical music.

Hariprasad Chaurasia's father was a wrestler who wanted his son to become a wrestler too, so Hariprasad learnt music secretly at first. He studied vocal music and then the flute, and later became a disciple of the great musician Annapurna Devi, the daughter of Ustad Allauddin Khan, who agreed to teach him only after he showed great dedication. He worked as a staff artist at All India Radio and later became famous both as a classical soloist and in film music. With the santoor player Pandit Shivkumar Sharma, he formed the composer duo "Shiv-Hari", which composed music for Hindi films such as "Silsila" (1981), "Chandni" (1989) and "Lamhe" (1991). He was part of the famous album "Call of the Valley" (1967), with Shivkumar Sharma and the guitarist Brij Bhushan Kabra. He has performed around the world and collaborated with many Western musicians, such as John McLaughlin and Jan Garbarek. He founded the Vrindaban Gurukul, a traditional music school, in Mumbai (2006) and later in Bhubaneswar, to teach the flute. He has also served as artistic director of the World Music Department at the Rotterdam Conservatory in the Netherlands. He received the Padma Bhushan (1992) and the Padma Vibhushan (2000).

The bansuri is a simple flute made from a single hollow shaft of bamboo, with six or seven finger holes. It is closely associated with Lord Krishna. Pandit Pannalal Ghosh is credited with developing the bansuri as a concert instrument of Hindustani classical music.

Why not the other options?

• ✗Shehnai is linked with Ustad Bismillah Khan.
• ✗Santoor is linked with Pandit Shivkumar Sharma, Chaurasia's partner in "Shiv-Hari".
• ✗Sarod is linked with Amjad Ali Khan and Ali Akbar Khan.