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| | Tukra in Tintal/Indian Music/Gallery den Haag, The Needlepoints/By Jan Haag |
 | | On the baya cover, behind the Tukra, the deeper background shows the theka in slow Tintal, also in Devanagari, though here the syllables are almost obscured by the over-laying Tukra. |
 | | Tintal's universal appeal is traditionally ascribed to the fact that it echos the beat of the human heart. |
 | | Thus, the color choices were, it seemed, all but preordained: the red, arterial, blood, vigorous, oxygenated, lively, young (like the usually faster, brighter sounds of the treble, right-hand tabla) rushes from the heart; the blue veinous, de-oxygenated, mellowed, modulated, experienced, wiser blood (like the deeper sounds of the bass baya) flows back to the heart. |
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