An artisan makes a tabla at his workplace in Peshawar. — Dawn. PESHAWAR: The art of making traditional musical instruments is fast dying down due to lack of patronage of the artisans and ...

Tabla Enthusiasts. Dom, tak, dom: the beats of tabla announce a party. In fact it is the weekly darbouka class at Cultograph. At 7pm sharp and in a festive atmosphere, young men and women meet to ...

Bose said the instrument had travelled to the country around the 12th century from the Middle East and had undergone a lot of transformation. “There is no clear origin of the tabla except that the ...

His much-loved instrument was made by Haridas Vhatkar, a third-generation professional in a Tabla maker family. Haridas Vhatkar learned to make Tabla for Ustad Zakir Hussain Haridas belonged to a ...

Mumtaz Ali has been making tabla for 45 years and is among the last of such craftsmen in the Varanasi market that once housed a thriving industry of instrument makers.

With the predominance of the tabla as an instrument of percussion in North India, the pakhawaj, or a version of it, has come to be associated as a percussion instrument played primarily in the South.

“According to a popular legend, the poet-musician Amir Khusrau (1253-1325) invented the tabla by cutting a. pakhavaj in half to form the two-piece instrument that has become the most popular and ...

Dina Darwich, Tuesday 29 Sep 2020. Over the past years there has been an increasing interest in tabla, an instrument with a long history, renowned performers such as Said Al Artist and many young ...