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NMM 1188. Drum (tabla/dayan), northern India, late 19th century. Cylindrical wood body with an animal-skin head attached with rawhide lacing. Traditionally, a paste made of water, flour, soot, iron dust, and other materials (a rubber pad is a contemporary substitute), is applied to the head to focus the sound, allowing for a variety of pitches and tones in the hands of a skilled player. Played as a set with NMM 1189, the tabla (a term referring to the set) provides the main rhythmic accompaniment for North Indian (Hindustani) classical music, Indian film music, folk, and devotional music in India, Pakistan, and other areas in Southeast Asia. Height: 29 cm. Diameter: 16.5 cm. |
NMM 1189. Drum (bayan), northern India, late 19th century. Copper, bowl-shaped body with an animal skin head attached with cord lacing. While the dayan (NMM 1188, above) is played by lightly touching different points on the head to produce different pitches, notes on the bayan are created by using differing pressure and placement of the hand on its head. The bayan is roughly an octave lower in pitch than the dayan. Height: 20 cm. Diameter: 21.5 cm. |
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Literature: Thomas E. Cross, Instruments of Burma, India, Nepal, Thailand and Tibet, The Shrine to Music Museum Catalog of the Collections, Vol. II, André P. Larson, editor (Vermillion: The Shrine to Music Museum, 1982), p. 5.
Thomas E. Cross, Instruments of Burma, India, Nepal, Thailand and Tibet, M.M. Thesis, University of South Dakota, May 1983, p. 10, plate II.
André P. Larson, The National Music Museum: A Pictorial Souvenir (Vermillion: National Music Museum, 1988), p. 29.
Sarah E. Smith, "Percussion Instruments in America's Shrine to Music Museum," Percussive Notes, Vol. 37, No. 1 (February 1999), p. 7.
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