00:00Every year on the 21st of June, World Music Day is celebrated.
00:18Right now, I am at the Lahore Music House in Daryaganj.
00:21Before this, Mr. Jaspal, the owner of this music house, used to run this shop in Lahore, Pakistan.
00:35Today, we will talk to Mr. Jaspal about how long he has been running this shop and what memories he has.
00:44Since when have you been running your shop in Delhi?
00:48I am very happy to meet you.
00:50I have been running this shop since 1948.
00:52I joined this shop with my father after completing my education.
00:57This showroom was opened after the partition in 1948.
01:03Before that, we used to have this firm in Lahore, Pakistan.
01:07In Anarkali, under the name of Pratap Music House.
01:11After that, when we shifted here, we saw many ups and downs.
01:16Now, we work as a retail outlet.
01:21We manufacture harmonium, tabla, dholak, manjira, and Indian instruments like pakhawaj.
01:28In strings, we have sarod, sitar, tanpura.
01:33We export all these things and give them to the government institutions.
01:39Sir, what memories do you have of Pakistan when you used to run this shop there?
01:46My father's name is Sardar Harcharan Singh.
01:48This is a very old shop.
01:51It has been here since 1915.
01:53It is the third generation.
01:54First, my grandfather, then my father.
01:56Now, we are running it together.
01:58My brother and I are running it.
02:00My name is Randhir Singh.
02:01My name is Jaspal Singh.
02:02This firm is running especially for Indian musical instruments.
02:07We have guitars in our western instruments.
02:10But our specialty is mostly harmonium, tabla, and dholak.
02:15You are interested in music.
02:18You sell and make music.
02:20You are also a musician.
02:21What did you learn and what are you interested in?
02:25My father was from Lahore.
02:27He learned from great musicians.
02:29He took lessons from Ghulam Ali.
02:32When we completed our schooling and joined the shop,
02:37we also played harmonium, sitar, and tabla.
02:40We deal with all these things.
02:42Sir, I would like to know one more thing.
02:45What memories do you have of great musicians and musicians from the film industry?
02:53I have been here for a long time.
02:56I would like to tell you that
03:01Begum Akhtar, Ghulam Ali from Pakistan,
03:06Ravi Shankar from Sitar, Amjad Khalil Ali Khan,
03:12all of them have visited our show.
03:14They are all Indian artists.
03:17Among the foreign artists, Beatles came to this shop in 1966.
03:22It is an old story.
03:23There is no point in repeating it.
03:24Everyone has information.
03:26The first instrument that the Beatles took from us was sitar, tabla, and tanpura.
03:32After that, they joined Pandit Ravi Shankar.
03:35The biography that I am telling you is absolutely true.
03:40How important is music in a person's life?
03:43What are its benefits?
03:45There are different opinions on this.
03:48I think music starts with a hobby.
03:51After a hobby, people who take it to mature education or art,
03:59they become artists or music teachers.
04:04Music is a hobby.
04:07It is still a hobby.
04:08It was a hobby 100 years ago.
04:09This is a 42 reed harmonium.
04:21This is an extra gram for singing.
04:41I am Dhananjay Verma from Delhi for ETV Bharat with camera person Sandeep Singh.
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