Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan was renowned a _______.

classical singer.
Key Points

• strong>Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan was born in Kasur, of the erstwhile Punjab Province, British India in 1902
• Following the partition of India in 1947, Kasur Tehsil was allocated to Pakistan. At the age of five, Bade Ghulam began training in vocal music from his chacha Kale Khan, and later from his father.
• The most famous stalwart of Hindustani music, Bade Ghulam Ali Khan was frustrated with a social set-up that found it difficult to honour his gift as a singer and migrated to India in the early '50s.

Additional Information

• The sarod, with almost the identical roundish belly of the Seniya rabab, with eight main and two chikari strings, and with a longer body as discussed above, is designed by Allauddin Khan along with his instrument-maker brother Ayet Ali Khan.
• Harmonium, also called Reed Organ, free-reed keyboard instrument that produces sound when wind sent by foot-operated bellows through a pressure-equalizing air reservoir causes metal reeds screwed over slots in metal frames to vibrate through the frames with close tolerance.
• A tabla is a pair of twin hand drums from the Indian subcontinent. Since the 18th century, the tabla has been the principal percussion instrument in Hindustani classical music, where it may be played solo, as an accompaniment with other instruments and vocals, and as a part of larger ensembles.