Indian Classical Music concert

In this concert hosted by the College Park Arts Exchange, you will hear Soumya Chakraverty play a stringed instrument called the sarod with Devapriya “Debu”  Nayak performing on the tabla, a pair of small drums of different sizes. Both of these instruments have a long history (see above). The sarod is a fretless stringed instrument with a skin head like a banjo and an extended air chamber under the fingerboard. These features give the sarod a unique and clearly identifiable depth of sound. The sarod is believed to have its origins in the Afghan Rabab, a smaller stringed, lute-style instrument played while marching or riding into battle. But it also seems to be related to a number of early plucked stringed instruments from India and the Middle East. The tabla is the best known classical percussion instrument of India and the Middle East, consisting of a pair of hand drums capable of a wide variety of sounds.