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A big presence on stage, he was always surrounded by fellow musicians on Indian instruments like the harmonium and the three-stringed sarangi, and a jamboree of vocalists providing the drone of the tanpura.

As he searched through his papers, his apprentice, Arash Forogh, who was playing backup harmonium, picked up the song’s thread and completed the verse.

He showed Reuters video clips of him playing the harmonium and rubab, a string instrument, some of which were on social media.

Some of the items set ablaze in Herat included a guitar, a harmonium and a tabla - a kind of drum - as well as amplifiers and speakers, according to images online.

What came back was a score marked by a booming, sulfuric war call played on a heavily amplified harmonium.