The tabla, a vital Indian percussion instrument, features two drums played with intricate techniques. Distinct schools, known as gharanas, have emerged, each emphasizing unique techniques and tonal ...

Meet Raju, a master craftsman from Thrissur, and explore a version of mridangam and tabla making that blends centuries-old ...

There is something inherently human about telling a story. In his magnum opus, historian Yuval Noah Harari observed that “Homo Sapiens is a storytelling animal that thinks in stories rather than ...

Whether you are planning to learn a percussion instrument or want to switch from one to another, you need to check out some good percussion instruments for beginners. There are plenty of choices ...

Rhythm is claimed to be the forerunner of music about which men learnt during the early days of their sociological and cultural evolution. Before they discovered sur (musical notes) or invented saaz ...

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 people who learn to play it His whole ...

Hindustani classical music is unthinkable without the tabla and its varying tempo of beats. In the devotional music of all three major religions (Hinduism, Islam and Sikhism) as well as Sufi and ...

Third Coast Percussion gives the L.A. premiere of Zakir Hussain's last major work, "Murmurs of Time," at the Nimoy, a final ...

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.

You may have heard of women playing the mridangam, but have seen one making it? Over the last 45 years, 72-year-old Ashwathamma has made nearly 3,000 tablas and mridangams. She has repaired thousands ...

While we have seen women playing percussion instruments, Bengaluru also boasts a woman who makes them. Ask Ashwathamma why she took up the profession and the 75-year-old says, “I have not gone to ...