An endangered know-how
Playing the
bin is almost a forgotten art in the Subcontinent today,
binkar are
well-nigh an extinct species, and consequently the manufacture of the instrument has met
with a similar fate. The city of Miraj (in Maharashtra), renowned among musicians for its
craftsmen specialised in the manufacture of the sitar and the
tanpura, was home till some time ago to
a few instrument makers who occasionally made traditional bin.