Like Pilibhit, several places in India have earned a pedigree certificate when it comes to delivering trademark-style musical instruments. Festivals like Raksha Bandhan and Durga Puja are good productivity periods.
But it isn’t a sustainable business,” shares Husain, who gets bulk orders amounting to as much as Rs 1 lakh during some months, but absolutely nothing in others. Today, you will find over 20,000 skilled karigars (craftsmen) here. “Traditionally, it started more than a century ago in Pilibhit. That’s why Pilibhit’s craftsmanship includes ordinary straight-blown and side-blown style of flutes. Each piece is handmade, unique in shape and dimension. I work on different sizes of the stick-11-36 inches-adjust it to various holes to achieve purity of the musical notes,” says Husain, whose home district in Uttar Pradesh is known for flute making.īamboo flutes are strong and melodious. I start early in the morning to avoid heat from skewers. He makes some markings on the sticks and places each one of them in a hot metal rod skewer to create holes of different diameters.īy 9 am, Husain completes a lot of 25 flutes, because in the next few hours, he packs, tags, and supplies it to his vendors based in Bengaluru, Pune, Kolkata, Delhi, Nagpur, Hubli and neighbouring temple towns in Uttar Pradesh like Mathura and Haridwar, known for being some of the major flute-using hubs of the country.
The sticks have been dried and treated with natural oils like mustard and almond for over a month. The Pilibhit-based flute-maker starts his day at 5 am by cutting a piece of highly graded bamboo cane, especially sourced from Silchar in Assam, and smoothens it with a sharp knife that moves through his dark, patchy, and blistered fingers.
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“Now we have a landmark in the city, Bansuri Chowk, to promote this industry,” says the proud first-generation flute maker, who learnt the art while on the job and has been in the business for more than 40 years now.Īt 55 years, one may not expect someone to possess the manual dexterity and motor skills to create something as delicate as flutes, but Sajid Husain does it with finesse.
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