First appeared in www.scroll.in on December 19, 2015. At the turn of the last century, practitioners of Hindustani music were suddenly faced with new technologies.  Despite their general initial reluctance to record gramophone discs, they soon saw this as yet another means to disseminate their music to a wider audience and as an additional source of income. Cinema similarly provided musicians with a new means of sustenance.  With the emergence of the talkies in the 1930s, musicians took up