Peter travels to India almost every winter now to study music (tabla and sarangi) and get a good dose of chaos to wake him from the cold quiet of northern Germany where he lives most of the rest of the year, so I've vicariously traveled parts of India through Peter's many stories, but never experienced it first hand until now. Years ago, Peter brought me some tablas from India so I was compelled to study in Berkeley for a few years, with Peter's guru Zakir Hussain and learn the wonderful rhythms of Indian music. Yesterday, we sat in on a class with bonsuri guru Hariprasad Chaurasia for a blissful morning of flute music, taught via call and response, like a parent teaches a child, with each phrase increasing in difficulty over a period of a couple of hours, until only a few of the best students could reply.
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