Tabla and Bhaya
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.
Artwork Details
- Title: Tabla and Bhaya
- Date: late 20th Century
- Geography: North, India
- Culture: Indian
- Medium: Hide, wood, chromed copper
- Dimensions: Tabla: 12 1/4 × 8 × 8 in. (31.1 × 20.3 × 20.3 cm)
Bhaya: 13 1/2 × 10 1/8 × 10 1/8 in. (34.3 × 25.7 × 25.7 cm) - Classification: Membranophone-single-headed / kettle drum
- Credit Line: Gift of Herbert J. Harris, 1986
- Object Number: 1986.467.79a, b
- Curatorial Department: Musical Instruments
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