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Indian tabla, consisting of two drums, …
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Pair of small drums, the principal percussion in Hindustani music of northern India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. The higher-pitched daya, played with the right hand, is a roughly cylindrical one-skinned drum, usually wooden, normally tuned to the raga's tonic. The baya, played with the left hand, is a deep kettledrum usually of copper; its pitch varies with pressure from the heel of the player's hand. A disk of black tuning paste on the membrane of each drum affects pitch and gives it characteristic overtones.


tabla
a musical instrument of India consisting of a pair of drums whose pitches can be varied


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He noted that music transcends all barriers and narrated how the Indian Tabla could be beautifully fused with the Swiss-Alphorn to produce a melodious rhythm.
He will be accompanied on tabla by his tabla guru Shri Harshal Tole and on harmonium by Shri Christopher Pereji.
Union Square Cafe, Gramercy Tavern, Eleven Madison Park and Tabla.
 
 
 
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