Other musicians such as Jivan Shah and his brother Pyar Khan, descendants - legend has it - of the great Naubat Khan, were also renowned bin players during the second half of the 18th century.
Employed in the court of the Maharaja of Benares, their influence proved to be strong, and Pyar Khan, it seems, played a significant role in the style of sitar playing that developed in Benares and Lucknow.
Umrao Khan, grandson of Jivan Shah, taught several sitar players outside the family circle, thus adding his bit to preserving the bin tradition.
The two sons of Umrao Khan, Amir Khan (who died around 1876) and Rahim Khan became binkar in the Rampur court after the political upheavals of 1857. Both – like their father – passed on a part of their musical knowledge to sitar and sarod players.
Amir Khan’s son, Wazir Khan (1861-1926), bin and rabab exponent taught Allauddin Khan, the renowned sarod player, who was also the father of Ali Akbar Khan and Ravi Shankar’s mentor.

The Maharaja of Jaipur, Sawai Ram Singh II (reign: 1835-1880) learnt to play the bin from one of his musicians Rajab Ali Khan. The latter, who had sojourned earlier at the court of Alwar, taught the art of the bin to Amiruddin Khan as well as to his nephew Musharraf Khan whose magnificent instrument is still preserved at the Government Museum of Alwar.

His son Abid Hussain Khan (below left, on the photo) was trained as a binkar and as a singer. He stayed in the Baroda court until about 1938 and then spent roughly fifteen years with the Nawab of Janjira, near Bombay before retiring, and moving to Indore where he lived until his death in 1978.

Since the end of the 15th century, the city of Gwalior had been a favoured spot for music. It was during the reign of Raja Man Singh Tomar (reign : 1486-1511) that the dhrupad genre appeared. The greatest musicians of the age lived here and the tradition continued until the beginning of the twentieth century.