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New Book
Our New book, “One Thousand Tabla Compositions; A Taxonomic Survey of Non-Kaida Material” is finally out. It is the 5th volume of the “Complete Reference for Tabla”. You can read more about it here at our website or in your local Amazon. It is available in both hardback as well as paperback in Amazons around the world.
Thank You
DAVID’S WIKIPEDIA PAGE – I have just noticed that someone has started to add an Arabic and an Egyptian Arabic version of my Wikipedia page. I have no idea who you are, but I would like to extend my thanks to you. If anyone would like to add it in other languages, this too will be appreciated.
It may be found at : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_R._Courtney
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