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SSC MTS 2022 PYQ — Question 47

SSC MTS - 19 July 2022 - Shift 1 • General Awareness • Q47

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With which musical instrument was Ustad Bismillah Khan associated?

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Correct answer: A

Explanation

The correct answer is Option 1 i.e. Shehnai.

  • Ustad Bismillah Khan was a great Indian shehnai maestro of Benares and awarded with the Bharat Ratna in the year 2001 being the third classical musician.
  • Bismillah Khan had won the rarest rare honor of performing at the Red Fort in Delhi on the evening of the Independence Day of India in 1947.
  • He also had performed the raga Kafi at the eve of first Republic Day ritual on 26 January in 1950 from the Red Fort.

  • He acted in Jalsaghar (a movie by Satyajit Ray) and played shehnai in Goonj Uthi Shehnai in 1959. Film director the Goutam Ghose has directed the Sange Meel Se Mulaqat upon the life of Bismillah Khan.