Peter Szalai plays North-Indian classical music and is one of the best west-born tabla musicians of our time.
The tabla is also a curiosity even among other Indian percussion instruments: it can be tuned to a specific pitch. The many layers of skin and the special finger technique ensures a distinctive polyrhythmical sound. Because of all this the tabla does not only fill the role of a rhythmical instrument, but it also has a rich tone and musicality.
In the beginning Peter Szalai was the stud...
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