Shafi Mohammed Fakir of Umarkot, a veteran musicians of the tribe, composes music that takes one through the melodious tunes of the traditional but mostly unheard music from the desert. He performs mesmerizing the crowd with his enchanting melodies. He plays too the traditional instruments such as dholak, phartal and ‘Khamach’, a time-honoured indigenous musical instrument of the Manganhaar musicians, that is now rarely found in Sindh. Being a tribal group of musicians native to the Thar Desert the Manganhaar are Muslims having close affiliations with their pre-conversion Hindu background and Rajput patrons.