Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 12:24 pm
I was on my honeymoon to Rajasthan, India, and I saw some pretty amazing stuff being done on this drum, dholak.
It is a two headed barrel shaped drum about 40-50 cm long where one slightly larger head gives bass tones (usually it has some patch applied on the inside of the head to lower the tone), and the other is high pitched, not unlike the bongo macho.
Does anyone have any information about this drum, where is it used, what are the traditional rhythms? It seemed to be quite popular there, even more so than the tabla, which is the first thing that comes to mind when Indian percussion is mentioned.
Maybe there are some sites, links, books, videos on dholak?
It is a two headed barrel shaped drum about 40-50 cm long where one slightly larger head gives bass tones (usually it has some patch applied on the inside of the head to lower the tone), and the other is high pitched, not unlike the bongo macho.
Does anyone have any information about this drum, where is it used, what are the traditional rhythms? It seemed to be quite popular there, even more so than the tabla, which is the first thing that comes to mind when Indian percussion is mentioned.
Maybe there are some sites, links, books, videos on dholak?