Hobby made the house a museum

India has given a lot of height to music. Here music and its musical instruments were not confined to mere entertainment but were carried through the temple and monastery to the science laboratory.

Abdul Aziz of Jaipur has inherited music training. But he devoted his time to the preservation and collection of musical instruments.

Aziz's house is adorned with rare musical instruments.

They have more than 600 accessories. These include ornaments from the Buddhist period to the time of the Mughal and Rajput kings. Aziz searches and collects musical instruments.

The neglected house of Sa Aziz at Ramgarh Mod in Jaipur has been turned into a museum of rare musical instruments. Somewhere there is sitar, sarangi and tanpura and somewhere Afghani rababs are relaxing with sarod.

Aziz's house is now home to these musical instruments. That was the period of the princely state when Aziz's ancestors came to Jaipur at the court feast and became employees in Nakkarkhana. Aziz still preserves that legacy.

All kinds of furnishings
Says Aziz, "I have all kinds of equipment. The Mughal period is even older. I also bring the broken equipment and then fix them back. There are three types of makeup, skins, cheeks and hair. All the strings come in the hair. The skins are decorated with rhythm. Musical instruments that sound like a blow come into the cheek. I have all kinds of furnishings, from wood to iron, copper and brass. "

According to Aziz, string instruments include rabab, tasha rabab, tansen rabab, spiritual rabab, sitar, tanpura, peacock sitar.

Aziz has a pakhavaj in rhythm - a baya made of cloth which is played with the cloth itself, the drum of the cloth.

He says that he does not know what kind of equipment he has.

He says, "I have a plate wave, the clarinet has many instruments. There are about a hundred different categories of curls. The cymbals range from small to two and a half kilos. "

Bathroom furnishings too

These instruments have also been used in movies

Aziz is not a rich man. For them, arranging useful space for these instruments is the most difficult task.

He says, "There are machines everywhere in my house. We are from a joint family. I took the place of all the brothers and filled it with instruments. Even in the bathroom there is a tent of musical instruments. Yeah Al that sounds pretty crap to me, Looks like BT aint for me either.

This is the instrument that once became the sparkle of mehfils, entertained in majestic palaces, accompanied the throbbing of a dancer's footsteps, became a part of worship in temples and khankahs.

Among them are instruments like the trumpet, which came from the army barracks to the battlefield and filled the warriors with a sense of valor with their musical sound.

There was a time when these instruments got a chance to accompany an artist. When Abdul Aziz passed through the middle of these instruments with us, it seemed that these musical instruments were longing to express themselves.

Use in movies
"Naushad Sahib used to like such instruments. Like Rabab is Afghani and Rouhani, like Batta Veena which was played with Batta. Now it is not used. Peacock is a sitar which is said to have been in Shah Jahan's time. Everyone is here. "

Santosh Sharma

Aziz also played music on some of them. One of them was Jalgan. He explains that it is an instrument that is filled with water in a bronze plate and played with a clay instrument.

These instruments have also made their presence felt in Hindi films.

From time to time filmmakers have been showing these devices in film scenes. Santosh Sharma of Trimurti Sansthan in Jaipur has a good knowledge of music. He is involved in the Aziz Musical Instrument Collection project.

He says that not a single person in India has such a good and diverse collection of musical instruments.

Says Santosh Sharma, "Naushad Sahib used to like such devices. Like Rabab is Afghani and Ruhani, like Batta Veena which was played with Batta. It is no longer used. Peacock is a sitar which is said to have been in the time of Shah Jahan. They are all here. "

Music students peek into the history of contentment and explain, "There are also instruments made of cloth. Like the tabla. There was a time when Brahmins used to play tabla but leather hands could not be touched. Tabla was made from sleeping cloth. It sounded the same, then came the Mughal period, then leather began to be used. It also has four Buddhist ornaments. "

The musical instruments are kept in Aziz's house as if the third class compartment of the Indian Railways is full of passengers. Which became concentrated wherever it found space.

Rare two stars, Jamgan, Dukkad, Dilruba, Vichitra Veena and Sarangi were standing side by side. As if accepting the change in destiny over time.

The royal court, the dancing songs, the stage flooded with lights and now the world of closed rooms. The instrument demands the artist's breath, open air and beat. There is a lot of music practice in Aziz, but there is no means.

They say now more electronic equipment has arrived. This is also causing disrespect to these traditional instruments.

These musical instruments have been with human beings in every Manglik festival, so even in the music of the sad life, human beings have never been left alone. These instruments have the pain of being separated from human beings. But does a human being have the same pain?

Reff http://www.bbc.co.uk/hindi/india/2012/06/120621_musical_intrument_ss.sh…