How to Use tabla in a Sentence

tabla

noun

• Shaidayi starts singing as the man to his left plays the tabla and the one to his right a clarinet.
  — Maija Liuhto, Longreads, 28 June 2018
• Some of the instruments being used in the track, there's dhols and tablas.
  — Kat Bein, Billboard, 3 Dec. 2019
• In the foreground is Zakir Hussain playing the tabla in a Taj Mahal tea ad.
  — Sudhir Sitapati, Quartz India, 6 Jan. 2020
• The boy drummed his empty canister, producing booms and gulps like a tabla.
  — James Stewart, Robb Report, 16 Apr. 2023
• Kamala’s fandom adds just enough context to connect her with the Avenger timeline, even as the series marches to the beat of its own tabla.
  — Lorraine Alitelevision Critic, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2022
• The talk will be followed by a live tabla and dance performance reinterpreting the music of all three films.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2024
• Fans could be watching a sitar and tabla performance one moment, then taking in searing black metal the next.
  — Chris Payne, Billboard, 26 June 2019
• Indian tabla has been my percussion instrument of choice for the last decade.
  — Cindy Atoji Keene, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2018
• Ghosh was a talented player of tabla, the Indian bongo-like drums, and sometimes performed with his wife.
  — Author: John Branch, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2017
• India had an ambassador in the tabla master Zakir Hussain.
  — Nate Chinen, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2016
• Like the masters of another hand drum, the tabla of India, Cándido dazzled his audiences.
  — John Edward Hasse, WSJ, 20 Apr. 2021
• Parimal Shukla, who played the tabla drum during the livestream at the temple, is from Dallas but has been attending graduate school in Tennessee.
  — Dallas News, 19 May 2020
• Of course, there were several moments when his jaw-dropping mastery of the tabla dominated the group’s performance.
  — David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Oct. 2017
• To play tablas as well as Hussain does requires both enormous talent and ceaseless dedication.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Mar. 2023
• The music features flute, violin, viola, upright bass, piano, drums, tabla, and dhol.
  — oregonlive, 15 Mar. 2023
• Intended especially for children 3 to 8, the concert will introduce a variety of instruments from around the globe, like the djembe, the vibraphone and the tabla.
  — Laurel Graeber, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2020
• There was no difference between the rhythmic expressions of someone doing a taal that goes with Khattak [a style of dance] or with the tabla or someone translating that into English.
  — Sowmya Krishnamurthy, Billboard, 15 June 2018
• Recorded with live instruments and vocals, Venba’s soundtrack bursts with energy by way of tabla, harpsichord, and synth.
  — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 18 Dec. 2023
• The expressive tabla player Sharma never speaks a word in the play, but his contribution is significant.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Sep. 2023
• Blake Mills' deft production gives the introspective songs a shapeless, open-spaced aural clarity that gives every celeste, tabla and synth room to flourish.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 12 Dec. 2017
• Serene waves of sound underpin Mr. Mahadevan’s gentle, keening vocals, and then the duo is joined by Mr. Hussain, whose tablas gently complement the vocals and guitar.
  — Martin Johnson, WSJ, 24 Jan. 2020
• Wedding guests traditionally perform the attan, a celebratory dance that follows the rhythmic beats of the tabla drum and allows the traditional dress to open up as the dancer twirls.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 5 Oct. 2021
• Accompanied on tabla by Avirodh Sharma, Ullah riffs for many of the 90 minutes on the immigrant experience: his parents’ and his own.
  — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2023
• Indian tabla player Zakir Hussain, whose career spanned over five decades, died yesterday at age 73.
  — Brittney Melton, NPR, 16 Dec. 2024
• His mother, Gagan Kishori, was a member of Nepal’s royal family and sometimes accompanied her husband and sons as a vocalist and tabla player.
  — New York Times, 29 Apr. 2021
• Ghungroo bells worn on dancers’ feet, mridangam and tabla drums, ektara single-string instruments, Bharatanatyam dance movements and tala clapping and tapping allow people across the country to express themselves.
  — Laura Latzko, azcentral, 29 Aug. 2019
• That’s all in English but with influences of hip-hop and electronic music and arrangements of tabla with Indian instrumentation.
  — Nicole Pajer, Billboard, 18 Aug. 2017
• This cultural blend has created a new sound, merging Western genres with traditional Arabic instruments such as the nay, tabla, and oud, and distinct Arabic drum patterns and Arabic scales.
  — Sara Ibrahim, Rolling Stone, 27 June 2024
• Hussain was considered the most recognizable exponent of tabla, a pair of hand drums that’s the main percussion instrument in Indian classical music.
  — Alexandra Banner, CNN, 16 Dec. 2024
• Rapping punctuated by Indian-flavored melodies and tabla drumming.
  — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2018

Last Updated: 1 Feb 2025