An artisan makes a tabla at his workplace in Peshawar. — Dawn. PESHAWAR: The art of making traditional musical instruments is fast dying down due to lack of patronage of the artisans and ...

Mumtaz Ali has been making tabla for 45 years and is among the last of such craftsmen in the Varanasi market that once housed a thriving industry of instrument makers.

Bose said the instrument had travelled to the country around the 12th century from the Middle East and had undergone a lot of transformation. “There is no clear origin of the tabla except that the ...

“According to a popular legend, the poet-musician Amir Khusrau (1253-1325) invented the tabla by cutting a. pakhavaj in half to form the two-piece instrument that has become the most popular and ...

The idiom of Punjab gharana will be featured this evening at the travelling music fest envisioned by the maestro Alla Rakha Khan and presented on three percussion instruments: tabla, Jodi pakhawaj ...

With the predominance of the tabla as an instrument of percussion in North India, the pakhawaj, or a version of it, has come to be associated as a percussion instrument played primarily in the South.

Mohammad Ajmal’s association with music began as a singer when he was in the second grade at Muslim High School, Multan. He was always drawn towards the tabla, which he used to play secretly ...

Tabla and other percussion instruments will unite to narrate stories from Ramayana at this festival in Mumbai. x. 00:00. There is something inherently human about telling a story.

The melodious sounds of musical instruments will ring out on the roads of New Delhi, replacing the ambulance sounds that came to dominate during the devastating coronavirus pandemic. Ambulance horns ...

Musical instruments are taking on new identities as pieces of art through the efforts of the Springfield Symphony Orchestra and offering them to the public.