Tabla (drum).

Alternative Title

Tabla

Instrument

Tabla

Instrument Family

Percussion

Place Made

India; Asia

Date Made

Late 19th or early 20th century

Description

Technical description: Undecorated wooden body; skins bound to rope and tensioned by leather thongs made of goat skin (`baddhi'). drum head (`puri') weighted for tuning purposes with semipermanent disc made from black paste. Head diameter 160.

Notes

P.R. Cooke, 1997.

Measurements

314

Collection

Reid Collection; MIMEd

Accession Number

0415