Families engaged for generations in making tablas now struggle to preserve their craft amid falling demand, cheaper industrial products and a disinterested GenNext
In a corner of a dimly lit, cluttered workshop in a crowded lane in Hyderabad’s Afzal Gunj, Mohammed Nayeem is bent over a tabla. He taps its smooth, circular upper surface with his forefinger, and listens to the sound intently. He then moves the tabla around on its base, and repeats the process. He is doing an intuitive check of the sound quality and pitch.
After a minute, he rises to fetch a Metro Tuner. In the process he has to step over and around piles of ropes, a few bowls of black paste, ready-to-sell tablas and a few old ones in various stages of repair. He places the Metro Tuner against the tabla and repeats the procedure to get a numerical value for the pitch. His brother and nephew are at work at the other end of this small space, which functions as a sales outlet-cum-workshop....................Read more
Source: BusinessLine
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