Mode Diagrams for the Tabla

  • The first 14 modes of an ideal circular membrane: their nodal diagrams, mode designations, and their relative modal frequencies

    Diagram (Mode designation)

    

    first harmonic
 (0,1)    

    second harmonic
 (1,1)                                                      

    third harmonic modes:
 (2,1)               
 (0,2)  
 combination mode    
 combination mode
 combination mode

    fourth harmonic modes:
 (3,1)               
 (1,2)  
 combination mode    
 combination mode
 combination mode

    fifth harmonic modes:
 (4,1)               
 (2,2)     
 (0,3)               
 combination mode
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