The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan c11.216

c11.216

In the Deccan and farther North preference appears to be given to the Tabla, which are small copper kettledrums—tenor and bass—always used together, and which are tuned as the two heads of the mridang. The Tabla are generally tied in a cloth round the waist of the performer. Frequently a small wooden kettledrum, rather longer in proportion to its diameter, called Bahya, and answering to the smaller head of the mridang, is employed with one of the tabla drums.