| Told by | Tirthankar Benerjee |
| Obtained by | Professor Sanjoy Bandopadhyay |
| Date | 14th February 2017 |
| Place | 3/1/1D Padmapukur Road, Kolkata 700092 |
| About the speaker | Tirthankar Banerjee is a well-known sitar player of Kolkata. He is a disciple of Sitar maestro Pt. Dipak Chowdhury. |
| Tags | Rabi Shankar, Dipak chowdhury, Tollygunge, Shyama Das Chakraborty, 82’s, George Harrison, Beatles, Pradip Chakraborty, Baguihati, Medical Representative, Vistar, Tool |
| Language | Bengali |
Tirthankar Benerjee speaks:
Verbatim:
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Verbatim by Dr. Suranjita Paul
Translation:
When I used to take lessons from PanditDipakChowdhury, our classes were held at the house of Panditji’s disciple Shree Shyama Das Chakraborty, who used to live at Tollygaunge. He was the superintendent of the Government Poultry at Tollygaunge. So we used to work at his place. This incident was probably from the year 1982, when Ravi Shankarji brought to Shree ShyamaDas’ house, George Harrison from the band Beatles; who was not particularly renowned for Classical Music though. He had come and I had met him also.
Another incident had happened after lunch, when Ravi Shankarji was waiting for his car to come and he was relaxing on the sofa. A student of Ravi Shankaji had come, who hadn’t been with him for long, and was a medical representative by profession. His name was PradipChakraborty and he used to live at Baguihati. So Pradipda had a question for Panditji.He asked how he does the Tehai in a consecutive manner. He asked whether there is a mystery lurking behind it.
Panditji had replied, saying that doing it isn’t a very difficult task altogether. He even cited an example for it, a very simple example of the Tritaal, which goes as DhaDhinDhinDha, DhaDhinDhinDha, Na Tin Tin Na, TeteDhinDhinDha. Pandit Di explained that the Tehai for this Taal would go as Dha Ti Dha, Dha Ti Dha, Dha Ti Dha. This was a simple Tehai he showed. Then he demonstrated what he had added to it, which goes as- Ta Dha Ti Dha, Ta Dha Ti Dha, TaDha Ti Dha. This ‘Ta’ that he added to every beat of the existing Tehai elongated the Taal. And he said that he repeats this lot of times. Basically it is very simple, but the interesting note here is that he would keep doing that for more than fifteen minutes on a stretch, without missing out on any beat. He would do the calculations on the spot, and perform according to it, thereby stretching the Tehai on and on. And he also said that this is nothing but practice. This I found very interesting.
Translated by: Ankana Das
Picture Courtesy: Google
Edited & Designed: Dr.Suranjita Paul
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