Smearing the Drums

Rajarshi Banerjee rajarshi.banerjee at SMGINC.COM
Wed Jan 17 22:05:52 UTC 2001


The pakhawaj is always played by smearing the bass drum head with flour
paste just like the mridangam. double headed drums are also depicted in
harappa. http://www.tabla.com/tablahs1.html#archeology
<http://www.tabla.com/tablahs1.html>
 incidentally the site mentions arched harps depicted in harapa too.





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