Nusrat - a Tabla player
When young Nusrat was introduced into music by his father, he was intially trained to play tabla. As per one of his video interviews, he was trained to play tabla and was also involved in singing small parts during qawwali performance. Rather than deep interests in Qawwali, Nusart preferred to sleep and used to take naps after finishing his parts in Qawwali.
To push him into qawwalis, he was often offered sweets and sometimes even beaten!
(source: recordings at lok virsa - islamabad)