1469 CE - Ferdinand II of Aragon marries Isabella I of Castile, uniting their respective kingdoms into a single country -- Spain.
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The tabla (or tabl, tabla) (Hindi: तबला, Bengali: তবলা, Urdu: طبلہ, Arabic: طبل، طبلة, Persian: طبل) is a membranophone percussion instrument, which is often used in Hindustani classical music. It is used in the Indian folk music is a part of Hindustani music art. The instrument consists of a pair of hand drums of contrasting sizes and timbres. It appears similar to their Afro-Cuban/Latin-American drum-based relatives bongos. However playing Tabla is very different to these. It is a mathematically calculated process. The right hand drum is called a tabla and the left hand drum is called a dagga or baya. It is claimed that the term tabla is derived from an Arabic word, tabl, which simply means "drum."[1] The tabla is used in some other Asian musical traditions outside of Indian subcontinent, such as in the Indonesian dangdut genre.[2] Playing technique involves extensive use of the fingers and palms in various configurations to create a wide variety of different sounds and rhythms, reflected in the mnemonic syllables (bol). The heel of the hand is used to apply pressure or in a sliding motion on the larger drum so that the pitch is changed during the sound's decay. In playing tabla there are two ways to play it: band bol and khula bol.
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