Brij Bhushan Kabra
Brij Bhushan Kabra, born in 1937 in Jodhpur, Jodhpur State, British India, was
an Indian musician who adapted the lap slide guitar for Hindustani classical
music. Raised in Jodhpur, he originally trained as a geologist before
discovering the Hawaiian lap slide guitar during a visit to Kolkata. He modified
the instrument by adding sympathetic and drone strings to facilitate playing
classical ragas, and studied under sarod master Ali Akbar Khan in Ahmedabad,
Gujarat. Kabra became the first musician to play Hindustani ragas on the guitar.
In 1967, he recorded the instrumental studio...
