Satnam IRON Tabla Hammer for Tuning Tabla Drums Percussion | Baya | Pakhawaj or Mridangam - Made in India
Tuning Tabla is an art. Unfortunately everybody who wants to play it, must learn to tune. Tabla can't be or should not be played without tuning. Why not? When we talk about tuning Tabla, almost all the time we mean tuning Dayan's (right side's) ‘Na' sound. The open sounds (tu, din etc.) of Dayan are tuned in some special situations only. One of them is playing multiple Dayans only to play a melody line on Tablas, also known as ‘Tabla Trung'.
Tabla is tuned with a special hammer. Although any small hammer can be used, but this thing is specially made for this task. It has a blunt head to tune it, a sharp head to fix it and the other side is designed to get the rawhide belt over the wooden blocks. This special hammer is a very cheap tool and it is mostly sold with a new Tabla. A Dahina is mostly tuned to the keynote, which is called ‘Sa' in Indian music. Tablas don't have very wide scales, so sometimes it is very hard to tune it to the keynote. The second preference is ‘Pa'(the fifth). If the composition you are playing Tabla with is such a Rāga, which doesn't use ‘Pa' (the fifth), then it can also be tune to ‘Ma' (the fourth). Some folk and popular style players tune it to ‘Ga' (the third) to accommodate wide range of songs without changing Dayans. A Tabla tuned on ‘Ga' (the third) does not blend well into the music, but it can be used to create a special sound in non-classical music. Most players keep more than one Dayans with variable head sizes with them tabla hammer hammer tabla set tabla drum hammer drill hammer set drum set
Satnam Tabla Hammer Specifications
100% Genuine product
Made in India
Dimension : 7 x 1 x 3 Approx
High Quality
Made with Iron
Brand : Satnam
Tuning : Drums Percussion, Baya, Pakhawaj or Mridangam