Tabla and Bhaya

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late 20th Century · Hide, wood, chromed copper · Musical Instruments

The term tablā is often incorrectly used to describe a pair of hand drums played in northern India, but the tablā is actually the cylindrical wood drum played with the right hand, while the bāyā is a clay or metal kettle drum played with the left hand. The evolution of the instruments and their playing techniques in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries corresponds with the development of the sitar and sarod.

Artist

Unknown

Date

late 20th Century

Medium

Hide, wood, chromed copper

Culture

Indian

Department

Musical Instruments

Credit line

Gift of Herbert J. Harris, 1986