The Music of Pakistan includes diverse elements ranging from music from various parts of South Asia as well as Central Asian, Middle Eastern, and modern-day Western popular music influences. With these multiple influences, a distinctive Pakistani music has emerged.
The Mughal Emperor Muhammad Shah was one of the most important patrons of Qawwali and is widely credited for its cultural advancement.
Faiz Ali Faiz, a qawwali artist live in concert
Pakistani Sufi Saieen Zahoor.
A trio of Pakistani folk singers performing at a local gathering
The pump organ or reed organ is a type of free-reed organ that generates sound as air flows past a vibrating piece of thin metal in a frame. The piece of metal is called a reed. Specific types of pump organ include the American reed organ, the Indian harmonium, the physharmonica, and the seraphine. The idea for the free reed was derived from the Chinese sheng through Russia after 1750, and the first Western free-reed instrument was made in 1780 in Denmark.
A hand-pumped Indian harmonium, of the type used in South Asia, here used at a European jazz festival.
Chinese Sheng mouth organ.
Free reed from an 1860s melodeon.