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	:improvisational forays treating merely three or four notes may occupy twenty minutes or more.<ref>Thomas W. Ross, [http://caferisko.ca/ak/MERUKHAND.html Forgotten Patterns: Mirkhand and Amir Khan] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426005603/http://caferisko.ca/ak/MERUKHAND.html \|date=2012-04-26 }}, [https://www.jstor.org/pss/834468 Asian Music], Vol. 24, No. 2 (Spring - Summer, 1993), pp. 89-109</ref>		:improvisational forays treating merely three or four notes may occupy twenty minutes or more.<ref>Thomas W. Ross, [http://caferisko.ca/ak/MERUKHAND.html Forgotten Patterns: Mirkhand and Amir Khan] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426005603/http://caferisko.ca/ak/MERUKHAND.html \|date=2012-04-26 }}, [https://www.jstor.org/pss/834468 Asian Music], Vol. 24, No. 2 (Spring - Summer, 1993), pp. 89-109</ref>

	Merukhand is now a part of the improvisational strategy within the [[Indore gharana]] founded by Amir Khan.<ref>https://sites.google.com/site/amirkhanikhayal/indoregharanaofustadamirkhan</ref>		Merukhand is now a part of the improvisational strategy within the [[Indore gharana]] founded by Amir Khan.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://sites.google.com/site/amirkhanikhayal/indoregharanaofustadamirkhan\|title = Amirkhanikhayal - indoregharanaofustadamirkhan}}</ref>

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'''Merukhand''' is an improvisational style in [[Hindustani classical music]] involving permutations of a fixed set of [[swara]]s or notes (''meru'', axis or skeleton) broken up in various ways (''khand'', fragment), while retaining the proper emphasis on various notes as required by the [[raga]].

Merukhand techniques were developed within the [[Bhendibazar gharana]] and popularized by masters like [[Aman Ali Khan]] and [[Abdul Wahid Khan|Abdul Waheed Khan]]. In the mid-1950s, they were adopted by the eclectic [[Amir Khan (singer)|Amir Khan]] in his own badhat (progression), although he did not use pure merukhand but inserted merukhandi passages into his performance. His disciple Thomas Ross says of this permutational style that
:improvisational forays treating merely three or four notes may occupy twenty minutes or more.<ref>Thomas W. Ross, [http://caferisko.ca/ak/MERUKHAND.html Forgotten Patterns: Mirkhand and Amir Khan] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426005603/http://caferisko.ca/ak/MERUKHAND.html |date=2012-04-26 }}, [https://www.jstor.org/pss/834468 Asian Music], Vol. 24, No. 2 (Spring - Summer, 1993), pp. 89-109</ref>

Merukhand is now a part of the improvisational strategy within the [[Indore gharana]] founded by Amir Khan.<ref>https://sites.google.com/site/amirkhanikhayal/indoregharanaofustadamirkhan</ref>

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[[Category:Indian styles of music]]
[[Category:Hindustani music terminology]]

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