Dig that Tabla

February 28, 2008 by gbrown 

This reminds me of my business trip to Kerala last Summer courtesy of our friends at ActsInfo. There are a few ethnic instruments that are as inimitable as they are evocative of the culture which they hail from - Gamelan, Erhu and the Tabla are 3 that spring to mind. The latter is most noted for its hypnotic modulating sound caused by the stretching tone of the hide across the drums. When these guys play they often slip into a trance…


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One Response to “Dig that Tabla”

  1. Pramod on March 4th, 2008 9:17 am

    Hi Graham
    I usually visits your blog and I am happy to saw our company name in the blog. But the url you gave is not correct. It’s http://www.actsinfo.biz
    Hope you are doing great

    Thanks
    Pramod Chandran

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