Born in anger or out of deliberate devotion to music, many stories credit origin of tabla
New Delhi: Legend has it that a competition was held in a Mughal court between two pakhawaj players. The losing maestro was so enraged that he smashed his pakhawaj, a two-sided percussion instrument, into two. And so was born the tabla. Such was the dramatic birth of the tabla, the two pieces of wood, metal … Read more
