“These are the people who made the instrument become identified with them. If you said shehnai, you said Bismillah Khan. You did not say anybody else, it became synonymous.”

— Bismillah Khan

Zakir Hussain, the famous tabla player quoted in "The Dawn of Indian Music in the West" page=121

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