A round-bodied drum with a tunable head. Often played as a bongo-like set with two drums, a larger fuller body sound and a smaller higher toned companion drum. These drums often have strings from head to bottom.
a pair of Indian drums played with hands and fingers by a single performer
A pair of drums, the treble is played by the right hand while the left hand plays the bass.
The main percussion in northern India, consisting of a pair of drums.
The name given to a set of two drums, largely used in North Indian music. One of them is a small drum on a vertical frame of lathe-turned wood whereas the other is a metallic kettledrum. Each skin is covered with a wide, black disc made of iron filings mixed with a rice paste, a combination that gives the instrument its characteristic tonality.
a pair of drums; also the higher pitched drum, played by the right hand
Also known as the right hand drum, the tabla (or dahina) comes from India and is a conical, almost cylindrical, drum shell carved out of a solid piece of hard wood. The shell has one open end, covered by a composite membrane. The base of the drum has a slightly larger diameter than the top. The bayan, or left hand drum, is a hemispherical bowl shaped drum made of polished copper, brass, bronze or clay. Both drums stand about 25 centimeters high.
an Indian percussion-instrument, which is actually two pot like drums, each with one skin stretched across the top
a set of two Indian drums usually played together
Two small hand-beaten drums
Pair of single-headed, tuned drums used in north Indian classical music.
In common terms both of the drums together; more precisely the smaller wooden drum.
(North India) A pair of small drums.
The pair of drums used for Hindustani music consisting of the bayan (or duggi) or the left hand drum and the dayan, the right hand one.
"The set of two drums, called dayan for the right hand and bayan for the left. The dayan is tuned to the ground note (sa) and the bayan is not tuned. Tabla is also used to refer to the dayan only." (Neuman 276)
From the Arabic 'tabl' meaning drum. The traditional percussion instrument of north India it is played on two separate drums referred to as bayan (left) or duggi, made of a metal alloy frame and dayan (right), made of a wooden frame. Both are covered by goatskin. It is said to be no more than 300 years old and takes most of it's repertoire from the older pakhawaj. The Delhi gharana (style) is considered to be the oldest tabla playing style. Tabla has embedded itself as the foremost Eastern percussion instrument abroad and has been popularised by famous exponents like Ustad Zakir Hussein, Pandit Anindo Chatterjee and more recently in the percussion fusion sounds of Trilok Gurtu.
A pair of hand drums used in Indian music, that are tuned to the main tones of the Raga (scale). A virtuoso performer can draw a seemingly limitless variety of timbre and pitch from the tabla.
The tabla (Urdu: تبلÛ, Hindi: तबला, tubblaa) (or pronounced Thabla in Malayalam) is a popular Indian percussion instrument used in the classical, popular and religious music of the Indian subcontinent and in Hindustani classical music. The instrument consists of a pair of hand drums of contrasting sizes and timbres. The term tabla is derived from an Arabic word which means "drum".