The smaller wooden treble drum, played with the right hand (for right-handed players) — the pair's melodic voice, tuned precisely to the tonic of the performance. Its shell is turned from dense wood such as sheesham or bija; its centered syahi gives the harmonically aligned ring that carries most of the named bol vocabulary.
Na, Tin, Tun, and Te all live here, each tied to a specific contact zone — kinar, maidan, or syahi. Also spelled dahina; the pair as a whole takes its name from "tabla," originally this drum alone.