单词 | tabla |
释义 | tablan. A pair of small hand drums used in Indian music, one of which is larger than the other; either of these drums individually, esp. the smaller.In quot. 1973: a tabla player. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > drum > [noun] > pair or one of pair tabla1799 bongo1920 timbales1928 1799 B. Solvyns Catal. 250 Coloured Etchings descriptive of Hindoos 21 A Tubla,—wooden Drums. 1867 Proc. Royal Irish Acad. 1864–6 9 i. 117 (Tubla). These drums, tenor and bass, rank with the pukhraj... The tubla drums are made of copper. 1888 A. J. Hipkins Mus. Instruments 87 A good Tabla or M'ridang player will earn from 100 to 150 rupees, per month. 1914 A. H. F. Strangways Mus. Hindostan ix. 227 The tubla, left and right, are of the shape of a giant tea-cup and coffee-cup respectively. 1973 ‘D. Jordan’ Nile Green xxiv. 99 ‘No evening Raga tonight?’ I asked. ‘The tabla has got flu so it's postponed.’ 1975 I. Murdoch Word Child 3 Christopher was learning to play the ‘tabla’, a dreary little oriental drum. 2000 Guardian (Nexis) 5 Feb. 26 The tabla..is, in fact, a collective term for two drums: the smaller being the right-hand tabla proper, and the larger being the bass drum, called the banya and played with the left hand. 2003 K. Daswani For Matrimonial Purposes (U.K. ed.) 239 I was..almost unable to hear the banging on the tabla,..the silky strains of the sitar that played near me. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1799 |
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