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{{Short description|Indian tabla player}}
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{{Use Indian English|date=April 2017}}
{{Infobox musical artist
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| birth_place = [[Udaipur]], [[Rajasthan]]
| birth_date = 16 April 1925
| death_date = 14 October 1965 (aged 40)
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| instrument = [[Tabla]]
| genre = [[Indian classical music]] and [[world music]]
| years_active = 1949–1965
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| past_member_of = [[Ali Akbar Khan]], [[Ravi Shankar]], [[Charanjit Chatur Lal]], Pranshu Chatur Lal, Shruti Chatur Lal, [[Ram Narayan]]
| website = {{URL|https://web.archive.org/web/20090618100150/http://www.chaturlaltabla.com/}}
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{{Listen |filename =|title = Raga Multani |description = Raga [[Multani (raga)|Multani]], an afternoon raga, performed by [[Abdul Wahid Khan]] in 1947 and accompanied by Chatur Lal on [[Tabla]] and Narayan on [[Tanpura (instrument)|tambura]]<ref name=Sorrell16>{{cite book |title=Indian Music in Performance: a practical introduction |last=Sorrell |first=Neil |author2=Narayan, Ram |year=1980 | publisher=Manchester University Press | isbn=0-7190-0756-9 |page=16 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LxkNAQAAIAAJ |accessdate=2009-06-23}}</ref>}}
'''Chatur Lal''' (16 April 1925 – 14 October 1965) was an Indian [[tabla]] player.

==Career==
Chatur Lal was born on 16 April 1925 in [[Udaipur]], [[Rajasthan]].<ref name=Naimpalli/> He toured with [[Ravi Shankar]], [[Nikhil Banerjee]], [[Baba Allauddin Khan]], [[Sharan Rani]] and [[Ali Akbar Khan]] in the 1950s and early 1960s and helped popularize the tabla in Western countries and made the nuances of this Indian drum.<ref name=Naimpalli>{{cite book |title=Theory and Practice of Tabla |last=Naimpalli |first=Sadanand |year=2005 |publisher=Popular Prakashan |isbn=81-7991-149-7 |page=107 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z63zvthhbhAC&pg=PA107 |access-date= 2009-03-31}}</ref> His younger brother [[Ram Narayan]] was a prominent Sarangi player in the second half of the 20th century.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://scroll.in/article/836696/listen-sarangi-master-ram-narayan-experiments-with-raags-rhythm-and-pace|title=Listen: Sarangi master Ram Narayan experiments with raags, rhythm and pace|date=6 May 2017 }}</ref>

He was the first internationally acclaimed percussionist to introduce Indian classical music with Pandit Ravi Shankar and Ustad Ali Akbar Khan to the West in mid 1950s, when they were invited to perform all over Europe and US for Modern of Museum Art, Rockefeller Centre and Omnibus through [[Yehudi Menuhin]] the violinist.

==Death==

Lal died on 14 October 1965 at the age of 40.<ref>Sorrell 1980, p. 26</ref> His legacy is maintained by the Pandit Chatur Lal Memorial Society and his elder son Charanjit Chatur Lal, his daughter-in-law Meeta Chatur Lal, his granddaughter Shruti Chatur Lal, and his grandson Pranshu Chatur Lal.

==Select discography==
*''[[India's Master Musician|India's Master Musician Ravi Shankar]]'', additionally with N. C. Mullick, tamboura. World Pacific Records/Gramophone Company of India/EMI EALP 1283 (1964, first release)

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090618100150/http://www.chaturlaltabla.com/ Official website]
*{{cite news|last=Joshi|first=Sandeep|title=Musical feast in store|work=The Hindu|date=2009-11-19|url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/2001/11/19/stories/14192184.htm|access-date=6 April 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101019035423/http://www.hinduonnet.com/2001/11/19/stories/14192184.htm|archive-date=19 October 2010|url-status=usurped}}

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[[Category:1925 births]]
[[Category:1965 deaths]]
[[Category:Hindustani instrumentalists]]
[[Category:People from Udaipur]]
[[Category:Rajasthani people]]
[[Category:Tabla players]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian drummers]]
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