A man with an Afro,
A Flute and an
An urban clay pot played as a instrument
What’s better than eating a dairy milk silk while making an awesome Lego on a Saturday afternoon? Nothing, right?! Except if you get concert tickets to Bryan Adams concert or passes to see the world’s best Lego sculptures. So on that Saturday, Dad walks in waving two tickets in hand and hope their not to a Hindi movie. I got up to see it when I tripped over my Lego, breaking it, swatting out those tickets and falling face first on the floor. One ticket had fallen next to me and rubbing my nose I took a glace. It showed two men, one playing a flute, the other with some metal stick and had an afro like hair. My mom explained to me that dad and I were going to a concert where we were going to listen to them play their instrument. I nodded as I wanted to get some time alone with dad and find out which instrument he was playing which needed metal sticks and were not drums.
So by 7:00 p.m. I was seated with dad in the fifth row from the stage. Finally it stated and two men walked in. Dad said that they were Pandit Shivkumar Sharma and Pandit Hariprsad Chaurasya. So he uncovered the instrument I wanted to see. I couldn’t see what it was but the way he played it was something like the drums. Except that it sounded like a piano. An Indian piano. Aarrrrrgh!!!!. It was so confusing. They started off and it sounded eerie. He leaned a bit forward and for a split second I could see the thing. It had lots of strings and was like the inside of a piano.
So my curiousness level had gone done so I was ready to leave but I saw dad enjoying it, I waited. Then these two other men walked in and one sat near a pair of Tablas and one near two Tablas combined and like a Dhol but not a Dhol but something like that. Aarrrrrgh!!!!. I was going to tear my hair apart! Indian instruments are so confusing. So dad must have read my thoughts and said that it was a Mridangam. The name itself was so hard to spell, forget about playing it. All of them played together and then suddenly some very old person walked onto stage.
He sat down and he revealed his instrument (doesn’t this feel like suspense?). It was a hard-dried clay pot on which he kept on banging. For ten minutes none of the others played a single note as this man banged the pot with so much ease and the sound coming out was also very different. First he was playing in the middle. Then he covered the top of the Ghatak as they called it and the sound echoed. He then went back to normal but the next minute he was hitting the down part of the pot. He then started banging on the stage and then went back to normal. The normalise was lasted only ten seconds and then he started throwing it up and down! After he was done he got a standing aviation by the whole audience. All of them than played together on and off and I swear I could have gone to sleep. I did and after the show dad woke me up and said it was time to leave. We had a short and good dinner at a nearby restaurant.
Getting home I felt that i had got to go to such a new type of concert and i was very thankful
The next day i wrote this and my mother was so happy that i had finished it before she told me.
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Hi, perhaps if you go more often with your dad you might actually enjoy the music?
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