Ustad Vilayat Khan, legendary sitar player died today. That really sucks. I know most people don't know (or care) who he was, but for Indian music lovers, it is a sad day indeed. Despite the fact that most folks never heard of him, he absolutely was 100 times the player that Ravi Shankar was, eventhough Shankar got all the attention. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=495&ncid=689&e=7&u=/ap/20040315/ap_en_mu/obit_khan Ustad Vilayat Khan, one of India's leading sitar players, has died. He was 76. Khan died Saturday in Bombay's Jaslok Hospital. He had lung cancer, diabetes and hypertension, the Press Trust of India reported. He was born into a family of musicians who trace their lineage six or seven generations back to the Moghul courts and ultimately to Miyan Tansen, the court musician of the Emperor Akbar of the late 16th century.