Ustad Bismillah Khan was an Indian musician who popularized ______.
Shehnai
Shehnai is correct.
Ustad Bismillah Khan (1916–2006) of Varanasi raised the shehnai, once played mainly at weddings and temples, to the classical concert stage. He played it at the Red Fort on 15 August 1947 and received the Bharat Ratna in 2001.
The other instruments are linked with other masters: the sitar with Pandit Ravi Shankar, the sarod with Ustad Amjad Ali Khan and the tabla with Ustad Zakir Hussain.
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