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Ta

The khali-side edge voice of the treble drum — usually the same physical stroke as Na.

Further reading

  • Rohit M. Ananthanarayana, Amitrajit Bhattacharjee and Preeti Rao, "Four-way Classification of Tabla Strokes," TISMIR (2023).

These works cover this subject in depth. See the sources.

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