Ustad Moinuddin Khan (not to be confused with Ustad Moinuddin Khan of Hyderabad) is the son of Ustad Mehboob Khan—who appears to have been an unacknowledged teacher of Pandit Ram Narayan. Moinuddin Khan also learned from his grandfather (nana) Ustad Khwaja Bakhsh. Moinuddin Khan was employed at the Jaipur Kathak Kendra and as a staff artist of All India Radio Jaipur.
I worked with Moinuddin Khan and his family in March 1997. The pleasure of hearing his children sing was one of my first inspirations for the Growing into Music project. Talking with his mother was also a great inspiration.
The first group of videos is from a visit 30 March, 1997. The first thing he played was an unaccompanied demonstration of rag Nat Bhairav. It includes an interesting sequence of tans:
This was followed by tuning and talking:
next I listened to Moinuddin Khan playing rag Patdeep accompanied by his son on tabla:
Our final offering from this visit is an interview with Moinuddin Khan's elderly mother, the widow of Ustad Mehboob Khan. She told me that their family, originally from Sikar, had moved to Udaipur and stayer there for six or seven years beforesettling in Jaipur. Although she came from a sarangi family and her grandfather had played sarangi, her father had worked the firelds. She also told me, in no uncertain terms, that the great virtuoso Pandit Ram Narayan, at the age of ten, had been brought by his father to learn sarangi from Mehboob Khan with whom he stayed for five or six years. It is upsetting to the family that he does not acknowledge his first guru, but apparently he did acknowledge this on the liner notes of one of his early LPs—they told me the LP on which Panditji played rag Saraswati.
