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PS. forget banaras, punjab gharana ALLLLL THE WAY :umm:

U misread..

I said banaras TABLA

but punjab gharanaaaaaaaaaaa!! KHULA HATH ALL THE WAY

AKAAAALAA!!

kingh singh can correct me if i'm wrong, but i do think that KHULEY HATH bols are from benaras gharana not punjab grin.gif

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grin.gif where's kingh singh grin.gif

PS. forget banaras, punjab gharana ALLLLL THE WAY :umm:

U misread..

I said banaras TABLA

but punjab gharanaaaaaaaaaaa!! KHULA HATH ALL THE WAY

AKAAAALAA!!

kingh singh can correct me if i'm wrong, but i do think that KHULEY HATH bols are from benaras gharana not punjab grin.gif

They are from benares gharana :umm:

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Vahe Guru Ji Ka Khalsa

Vahe Guru Ji Ki Fateh

Can anyone help me, im interested in buying a tabla, from the UK , from the sangat or from the net. But i thinking i might as well get a good one if im gonna keep it, or should i get any one , until i learn and actually understand more about it, im at a very basic stage at the min

please guide

SAT NAM

As your a beginner I suggest you get a beginner set rather than a professional one. Search for "jas musicals" on google and go on their site, you can find some tabla sets there. I personally buy mine from india :umm:

I wouldn't buy it of ebay or do something stupid like that, it's really hard to tell the quality of a tabla unless you play it for yourself. If you don't live near southall or in london then i'm sure there are other shops that sell tablas. Quality does vary from one tabla set to another so be put off if the sound quality of the beginner set isn't good enough, i'm sure your not going to play in a concert in front of thousands of people.

By the way, where do you live?

That's the wrong way to go about it, because you really do play as well as your instrument. If you have a set of $500 tabla that are expertly tuned and have a wide range of sound, then you will hear the difference and you'll feel the difference when playing. The down side to that, is that they're 500 bucks and if you wreck 'em, well, you don't wanna wreck 'em :umm: Try shooting for somewhere in the middle, and expect to pay around $200 for a good set.

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Vahe Guru Ji Ka Khalsa

Vahe Guru Ji Ki Fateh

Can anyone help me, im interested in buying a tabla, from the UK , from the sangat or from the net. But i thinking i might as well get a good one if im gonna keep it, or should i get any one , until i learn and actually understand more about it, im at a very basic stage at the min

please guide

SAT NAM

As your a beginner I suggest you get a beginner set rather than a professional one. Search for "jas musicals" on google and go on their site, you can find some tabla sets there. I personally buy mine from india :umm:

I wouldn't buy it of ebay or do something stupid like that, it's really hard to tell the quality of a tabla unless you play it for yourself. If you don't live near southall or in london then i'm sure there are other shops that sell tablas. Quality does vary from one tabla set to another so be put off if the sound quality of the beginner set isn't good enough, i'm sure your not going to play in a concert in front of thousands of people.

By the way, where do you live?

That's the wrong way to go about it, because you really do play as well as your instrument. If you have a set of $500 tabla that are expertly tuned and have a wide range of sound, then you will hear the difference and you'll feel the difference when playing. The down side to that, is that they're 500 bucks and if you wreck 'em, well, you don't wanna wreck 'em :umm: Try shooting for somewhere in the middle, and expect to pay around $200 for a good set.

If your a beginner, your a beginner. Even if you play zakir hussains tabla it won't make you any better. Not all cheap sets are crap quality, depends where you buy it.

If you get more practice and start having more and more lessons from your teacher then you can go and buy a batter one if you want.

Tabla player one can produce good sound in a bad quality tabla, tabla player two can also do it but in a really good quality tabla (concert/pro set). Obviously the first tabla player is better...

However, it's up to the topic starter what he/she wants to buy. Good luck.

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I agree with SmartSingh....

You need a good tabla if you want to learn so that you can actually understand what you're doing wrong and stuff...

But it doesn't need to be the BEST TABLA EVER or anything like that.

Any of you guys like tabla masters here? Or learn from tabla masters?

I doubt it... but I know who SmartSingh learns from, and I know a guy that learned from Zakir Hussein (and Allah Rakha) for 8 years and he says the same thing.

In the end I would say this though:

BORROW a tabla for your first few lessons, that'll give you time to see if you really want to learn and stuff before you go spending your money.

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in panjba you can buy a good tabla for about 2500 - 3500 rupees which is about 30 -40 quid. go to dtf andf they cost double that. Im after a tabla head for the smaller one. duz anyone know where i could get one in the uk and how much is it from india? dotn wanna get ripped off by the shysters.

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PS. forget banaras, punjab gharana ALLLLL THE WAY :umm:

U misread..

I said banaras TABLA

but punjab gharanaaaaaaaaaaa!! KHULA HATH ALL THE WAY

AKAAAALAA!!

kingh singh can correct me if i'm wrong, but i do think that KHULEY HATH bols are from benaras gharana not punjab grin.gif

They are from benares gharana :umm:

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Best tabla are from Lahore. Muslim sufis show upmost respect for a tabla, where as indians see a tabla as just an instrument. In Lahore There is a Bazaar called Taji Hai, where there is a small shop where a sufi sant Burga Khan Wari makes a tabla set for you by seeing hand size, body height etc. as i said in lahore tabla isnt just an instrument and as a marasi when a Sant Marasi makes an instrument with love and devotion there is no nazaar...by the way the lakaar Burga Ji ses is Horai Talli which is the rarest hardest resonating wood found in the indian subcontinent. each one is hand made...i personaly have 1 made by Burga ji, and i know My Ustad Harjit Singh and his Ustad Tari Khan buy from Burga ji and so does Zakir Hussain Ji.

Hope this helps...if you need more info message me mate.

Fateh

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