a pair of small hand drums used especially in Indian classical music. Pair of small drums, the principal percussion in Hindustani music of northern India. The higher-pitched daya, played with the right hand, is a roughly cylindrical one-skinned drum, usually wooden, normally tuned to the raga's tonic. The baya, played with the left hand, is a deep kettledrum usually of copper; its pitch varies with pressure from the heel of the player's hand. A disk of black tuning paste on the membrane of each drum gives it harmonic overtones
A set of two small tuned drums used in North Indian music The left hand plays the larger of the two drums, the "Bayan", which has a lower pitch After striking the drum with the tips of the fingers, the note is "bent" up by pressing down with the heel of the hand, tightening the drum head The right hand plays elaborate patterns on the smaller drum, the "Tabla," which has a higher, fixed pitch
Tabla are a pair of drums used in North Indian music The sitting player strikes the conical right-hand drum and the kettle shaped left-hand drum with his fingers
A pair of hand drums used in Indian music, that are tuned to the main tones of the Raga (scale) A virtuoso performer can draw a seemingly limitless variety of timbre and pitch from the tabla