n.
Pair of small drums, the principal percussion in Hindustani music of northern India.
The higher-pitched daya , played with the right hand, is a roughly cylindrical one-skinned drum, usually wooden, normally tuned to the raga 's tonic. The baya , played with the left hand, is a deep kettledrum usually of copper; its pitch varies with pressure from the heel of the player's hand. A disk of black tuning paste on the membrane of each drum gives it harmonic overtones.
Indian tabla , consisting of two drums, ...
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