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6 unusual facts about Tabla


Atul Gautam

Atul Gautam (1973 – 16 January 2005) was a talented Tabla Maestro of Nepal, born in 1973.

Bhaja Caves

These caves also provide important proof regarding the history of the Tabla, an Indian percussion instrument, since carvings from 200 BCE show a woman playing tabla and another performing a dance.

Karim Nagi

He focused in Middle Eastern instruments like the Tabla, the Riqq, and the Sagat (finger cymbals).

He is a recognized instructor of percussion instruments like the Tabla and the Riqq: He has released two instructional DVDs for Tabla and one for Riqq.

Nachiketa Ghosh

Gradually Tabla (and music as a whole) became the first love of Nachiketa.

At his very childhood he has accompanied many of them as a Tabla player.


A Disappearing Number

The play includes live tabla playing, which "morphs seductively into pure mathematics", as the Financial Times review put it, "especially when … its rhythms shade into chants of number sequences reminiscent of the libretto to Philip Glass's Einstein on the Beach. One can hear the beauty of the sequences without grasping the rules that govern them."

Ági Szalóki

:Featuring: Kornél Fekete-Kovács – horn, Gábor Juhász – guitar, Péter Szalai – tabla, Balázs Szokolay Dongó – flute, tárogató; tale telling György Cserhalmi

Amma Ariyan

As they move from Kozhikode to, Beypore, Kodungalloor, Thrissur, Kottapuram, Vypin, and finally to Fort Kochi, the group swells as they meet many mothers and their sons and relatives who have known Hari; some had known him as a tabla player, some as Tony, the jazz drummer and others as a silent political activist, a victim of police brutality, and a loner.

Anuj Rastogi

In 2003, Anuj met Ghazal and tabla artist Cassius Khan, and began to bridge traditional and electronic music through their first few collaborations.

Aref Durvesh

Aref Durvesh is a celebrated and prolific tabla artist who has recorded and performed with Badmarsh & Shri, Sting, Susheela Raman, Cheb Mami, Jeff Beck, Visionary Underground, and is also one of the longest-serving members of Nitin Sawhneys band, having performed on all of his albums as well as all his UK and international tours.

Bora Yoon

She has performed with Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble, Maestro Helmuth Rilling, members of Bang on a Can All-Stars, guitarist Kaki King, multimedia artist R. Luke DuBois, tabla artist Suphala, beatbox artists Adam Matta and Taylor McFerrin, and Voices of Ascension choir.

Canadian Music Week

Cassius Khan, Indian Classical Musician; The Ghazal Tabla Wizard

Chatur Lal

Lal toured with Ravi Shankar, Aashish Khan, Vasant Rai, and Ali Akbar Khan in the 1950s and early 60s and helped popularize the tabla in Western countries.

G. M. Durrani

Thereafter he sang for, among others, noted music directors like Khurshid Anwar, Naushad, Shankar Rao Vyas and A. R. Qureshi (Better known as Alla Rakha, Pandit Ravi Shanker's famous tabla accompanist) for films like Mirza Ghalib, Humlog, Magroor, Shama, Namaste, Sabak and scores of others.

Grand Pianoramax

Various guests appeared on the album, including Grand Pianoramax long-time collaborators Mike Ladd, Black Cracker and for the first time Karsh Kale on tabla.

Gurunanak Darbar, Ireland

On the right of the Guru Granth Sahib, musicians with harmoniums, tabla and other musical instruments sing hymns from it.

Imrat Khan

Imrat has five sons, Nishat, Irshad, Wajahat and Shafaatullah,and Azmat Khan, now only eight; the first four sons are all classical musicians: Nishat plays the sitar, Wajahat concentrates on the sarod and Shafaatullah is accomplished on sitar, tabla, and surbahar.

Joe Veillette

He appeared on Krishna Das' 2005 album All One, featuring Walter Becker on bass, drummer Rick Allen, tabla player Ty Burhoe, and guitarist/composer David Nichtern.

Lenny Seidman

A 75 minute solo piece performed by Seidman for tabla and frame drum approximately 12 times during 1994 and 1995 for Helmut Gottschild’s “Meet Mr. R” performed at Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, Allegheny College, Meadeville PA, University of the Arts Theater, Philadelphia PA, Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia PA.

Lenny Seidman (born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a tabla musician/composer and World Music and Jazz curator at the Painted Bride Art Center in Philadelphia.

Lenny has given workshops nationally, teaches tabla and rhythm theory privately and is the World Music and Jazz curator at the Painted Bride Art Center in Philadelphia.

Lokkhi Terra

Their albums also feature additional artists including Nazrul Islam on dhol, Pandit Dinesh on tabla, Haider Rahman on bansuri and Finn Peters on flute.

New York Percussion Trio

The trio commissioned a number of new works from contemporary composers, including Harold Farberman (Variations for Percussion With Piano, 1954), Halim El-Dabh (Hindi-Yaat no. 1 and Tabla-Tahmeel no. 1, both 1959, and Tabla-Dance, 1961), and Gitta Steiner (Trio, 1969).

Peter Szalai

In his childhood he played the piano, and as stepson of György Petri at the age of 16 on the advice of a family-friend György Kurtág, he chose the Indian tabla drum pair as his instrument.

Philip Francis

Philip V. Francis (1964–2008), tabla player, composer and Ghazal singer from Kerala, India

Rishi Valley School

Apart from academics, students participate in various cultural activities including: classical Indian dance (Bharatnatyam), Carnatic music, Mridangam, Violin, Tabla and Piano.

Rusholme Rock

Two covers exist, 'I Fought the Law' (originally written by Sonny Curtis of The Crickets in 1959) and 'My Sitar' which is an acoustic/military tabla version of My Star, the top ten chart song written by Ian Brown and Aziz Ibrahim.

Sanjib Kumar Roy

In 2005 October, Roy got another permanent job in Andaman’s Education Department as Music Teacher (Tabla- instrument) and due to family pressure he left his journalism career and joined a government school in the remote and tsunami ravaged Island of Car Nicobar.


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