Tabla Repair 3 Measuring and choosing a skin

This video is part of a series of educational videos to help musicians with some of the basic maintenance of Indian musical instruments. Please watch the videos in chronological order — it will help you to better understand the processes. The videos 1 - 9 of the Tabla Repair series shows, in numerical order, the full process on how to put a new tabla skin on. The Videos 10 - 13 are basic tabla maintenance videos. The making of a tabla skin is not included. The Tabla Repair Series consists of the following videos: Tabla Repair 1 - The tools. Tabla Repair 2 - Removing the old skin Tabla Repair 3 - Measuring and choosing a new tabla skin. Tabla Repair 4 - Attaching the under ring and the skin Tabla Repair 5 - Attaching the Badhi Tabla Repair 6 - Removing the slack from the Badhi Tabla Repair 7 - Adding tension to the badhi Tabla Repair 8 - Balancing the pitch and adding the gittis Tabla Repair 9 - Tidying up the badhi Tabla Repair 10 - opening the sound with a thread (jiva) Tabla Repair 11 - Re-tightening the badhi Tabla Repair 12 - Cleaning the skin Tabla Repair 13 - Fixing the Buzz on the Shyahi There maybe more videos in the future, so please subscribe to this channel. To learn more about my work and research, or to support it, please visit: For info, https://www.tosslevy.nl. For donations, https://www.tosslevy.nl/home/donation... © Copyright Toss Levy 2026. All rights reserved.