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This brand new, beautiful set of Professional Tabla is one of India's most popular musical instruments used in classical music.
A tabla comprises two drums, a bass drum or bayan which is the biggest of the two, played with the left hand, and the treble or dayan, to be placed on the right.
It has a wonderful beat and sound.Set is carefully handmade with the left hand drum (called bayan)9 inches in size made of handcrafted, carved and beautifully designed brass while the right handed drum (called dayan)5 1/4 inches in size is made of seasoned, durable sheesham wood.
The tabla drums are hand carved and tastefully decorated,designed in india.
Tabla comes with ring set, hammer & standard bag. 
The tabla has a language all its own. For every sound on the drum there is a corresponding syllable. These syllables are known as bols, and to the tabla master these onomatopoetic bols and their corresponding sounds on the drums are almost one and the same. Each North Indian tala has a theka, a standard set of bols that identify the rhythmic cycle. The theka aids the soloist in keeping time. 
TALAS
There are an estimated 350 talas in North Indian music, of which ten are in common use. These ten, along with three unusual ones, are presented here. Each tala is a number of beats in duration. The beats have different degrees of emphasis within a tala, and are marked with a system of hand claps, hand waves and movements of the fingers. The most important point of rhythmic emphasis is the sam, the first beat of the tala and point to which all variations eventually return. It is represented by the symbol "+," and is marked by a hand clap. The khali, literally the empty beat, is the unaccented beat of the tala. The lack of accent is emphasized, making the khali a very important beat. It is marked by a wave of the hand and is written with the symbol "0." Talas have other accented beats known as tali, also marked by hand claps.
They are not as heavily accented as the sam, but serve to divide the tala into smaller sections as do the sam and khali. In written notation, the tali are numbered, starting with the number two, as the sam is the first tali. For example, the sam is written "+," the second tali is written "2," the khali "0," the third tali "3," and so on.
NORTH INDIAN BOLS
Syllables ------------------ Pronunciation
dha, na, ta ------------------ long a
ga, ka, kat, ta (kata, kita) ------------------ short ade, dhe, ge, gen, ke, kre, tre ------------------ long e
re, te, tet ------------------ short e
dhi, di, ki ------------------ long i
dhin, din, ri, ti, tin ------------------ short i
tun ------------------ long u
An example of harmonic figure of the tabla dayan is shown here:-
Common strokes such as "Ta", "Tin", and "Na" are strongly pitched resonant strokes (i.e., khula)
This is illustrated in the spectrogram of "Ta" shown in figure 2. The harmonic spectrum by definition, is characterized by an integral relationship between the overtones and the fundamental. 
The tabla-dayan is not the only drum with a pitch: the bayan also has a pitch.
Figure 3 shows the sound of "Ga" played with the wrist sliding forward and the pressure increasing, this is a very common modulation. The relationship between the spectra of the bayan and the perceived sound is easy to understand.
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