1. Pandit Pannalal Ghosh, known as Amal Jyoti Ghosh, was an Indian flute player and composer.
20 Facts About Pannalal Ghosh
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Pannalal Ghosh was a disciple of Allauddin Khan, and is credited with popularizing the flute as a concert instrument in Hindustani classical music and the "Pioneer of Indian Classical Flute".
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Pannalal Ghosh was born on 24 July 1911 in Barisal, Bengal Presidency, British India.
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Pannalal Ghosh was named Amal Jyoti Ghosh with Pannalal having been his nickname.
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Two apocryphal incidents in his childhood are believed to have influenced Pannalal Ghosh in taking up the flute.
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At the age of nine, while swimming in the river one day, Pannalal Ghosh found a long bamboo stick that was half-flute and half walking stick.
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The flute part of the stick was longer than a traditional flute and Pannalal Ghosh started practising on it.
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When Pannalal Ghosh obliged, the man blessed him and said that music would be his salvation.
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Pannalal Ghosh was married to Parul Ghosh in 1924 when she was only nine and he was thirteen years old.
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Pannalal Ghosh was the younger sister of Ghosh's friend Anil Biswas who went on to become a celebrated music composer.
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In 1928, Pannalal Ghosh became a part of the Indian Independence Movement.
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Pannalal Ghosh joined a gymnasium and learnt martial arts, boxing and stick fighting.
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Pannalal Ghosh realised that a bigger flute's pitch and sonority would be more appropriate for both classical and light music.
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Pannalal Ghosh experimented with various materials including metal and different types of wood, and decided on using bamboo.
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Pannalal Ghosh finally settled on a flute which was thirty two inches long.
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At Kolkata during the early 1930s, Pannalal Ghosh received musical training for two years from his first Guru, the noted harmonium player and a renowned master in classical music, Ustad Khushi Mohammed Khan, under the traditional Ganda Bandhan form of tutelage.
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Pannalal Ghosh's younger brother, Nikhil Pannalal Ghosh, was a noted Tabla player and Padma Bhushan awardee.
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Pannalal Ghosh jointly scored the background for "Aandhiyan" in 1952 along with Ustad Ali Akbar Khan and Pandit Ravi Shankar.
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Pannalal Ghosh was the first to introduce the seven-hole flute.
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Pannalal Ghosh incorporated what is known as the Teevra-Madhyam Hole which is known as the Dhruva-Madhyam hole, placed off the centre-line of fingering holes, at the bottom of the flute.