Word: tabla
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...includes a haunting, folklike ballad, mostly by Paul ("Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in the church Where a wedding has been"), and Yellow Submarine, a bright, repetitive ditty delivered by Ringo. The album has considerable variety in mood, harmony and orchestration-including Oriental overtones provided by a tabla in Love You To, and violins, violas and cellos for poor Eleanor Rigby...
...stage of Judson Memorial Hall at Manhattan's Washington Square. Glancing at the drummer to the right of him, Ravi Shankar cradled his sitar in his arms, and with slender, agile fingers began to coax from its steel strings a piercingly plaintive, twangy melody. Beside him the tabla (drum) thrummed and rataplanned a shifting, syncopated beat, and behind him a four-stringed, unfretted lute named the tamboura thinly droned its hypnotic accompaniment. Thus Sitarist Shankar, India's most widely famed contemporary musician, last week gave U.S. listeners a taste of his country's traditional music...