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tabla



ta·bla [ ˈtä-blə]



tabla   
noun
[ˈtä-blə]

Definition of tabla

: a pair of small different-sized hand drums used especially in music of India



Recent Examples on the Web


//Scott Bolman and David Finn’s scenic design places a rising rock face resembling crumpled aluminum at the rear of the stage; Hussain, with his tabla, and Sabir Khan, singing and playing sarangi, are perched stage right, behind a scrim.
— Rachel Howard, San Francisco Chronicle, "Hussain on hand for Lines Ballet’s glorious 35th birthday," 8 Apr. 2018
//Later, student vocalists and tabla players from the Phoenix Gharana School of Indian Arts will give a taste of northern India’s Hindustani classical music style.
— Laura Latzko, azcentral, "India's colorful cultural heritage takes center stage at MIM celebration," 29 Aug. 2019
//Fans could be watching a sitar and tabla performance one moment, then taking in searing black metal the next.
— Chris Payne, Billboard, "What Does It Mean to Be an Independent Festival in 2019?," 26 June 2019
//Indian tabla has been my percussion instrument of choice for the last decade.
— Cindy Atoji Keene, BostonGlobe.com, "Art ‘eats at me all day long’," 29 June 2018
//Davies Symphony Hall, 201 Van Ness Ave., S.F. www.sfsymphony.org Samarth Nagarkar, Josh Feinberg Vocal; sitar; Ehren Hanson, and Satish Tare, tabla.
— Chronicle Staff Report, San Francisco Chronicle, "Classical music and dance listings," 7 June 2018
//Shaidayi starts singing as the man to his left plays the tabla and the one to his right a clarinet.
— Maija Liuhto, Longreads, "A Music So Beautiful the Birds Fell from the Trees," 28 June 2018
//There was no difference between the rhythmic expressions of someone doing a taal that goes with Khattak [a style of dance] or with the tabla or someone translating that into English.
— Sowmya Krishnamurthy, Billboard, "Hit Songwriter Raja Kumari Is Becoming an Artist on Her Own Terms: My Label 'Didn't Know What Box to Put' Me In," 15 June 2018
//They're managed by IMG Artists, a huge international talent agency that also represents the likes of Japanese taiko troupe Kodo, Spanish flamenco star Diego el Cigala, and Indian tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain.
— Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader, "Mariachi Herencia de Mexico turns Chicago schoolkids into chart-busting stars," 23 May 2018


First Known Use of tabla

1865, in the meaning defined above



History and Etymology for tabla

Hindi & Urdu tablā, from Arabic ṭabla



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