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- noun music A type of
drum fromPunjab
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Examples
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Its central instrument is a large double-headed drum called a dhol, which is handled with great verve by Sunny Jain, the leader of the festive outfit.
The New Yorker newyorker.com 2010
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Its central instrument is a large double-headed drum called a dhol, which is handled with great verve by Sunny Jain, the leader of the festive outfit.
The New Yorker newyorker.com 2010
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Its central instrument is a large double-headed drum called a dhol, which is handled with great verve by Sunny Jain, the leader of the festive outfit.
The New Yorker 2010
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And the two most pronounced instruments in that music are the dhol, which is a drum hit on - worn around the neck, hit on by two sticks and the tumbi, which is a stringed instrument.
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The dhol is a percussionary musical instrument widely used across the Indian subcontinent - and has become the ground roots of Bhangra music as we know it today.
AsianWeek 2009
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Sukhwinder Singh's vociferously throaty and Sunidhi Chauhan's seductively crooned vocals are at the helm of affairs that gets electrified with thumping '' dhol '' beats and pulsating arrangements.
unknown title 2009
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Sukhwinder Singh's vociferously throaty and Sunidhi Chauhan's seductively crooned vocals are at the helm of affairs that gets electrified with thumping '' dhol '' beats and pulsating arrangements.
unknown title 2009
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Sukhwinder Singh's vociferously throaty and Sunidhi Chauhan's seductively crooned vocals are at the helm of affairs that gets electrified with thumping '' dhol '' beats and pulsating arrangements.
unknown title 2009
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Two dance companies, Dhoonya Dance Group and Bollywood Axion, entertained the crowds with special Holi dance routines, and a traditional Indian dhol drum player added his own rhythm to the festivities.
Jim Luce: Indian Spring Festival of Colors, Holi, Celebrated at South Street Seaport Jim Luce 2011
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We wondered how we gave our power to men who have defined an Islam -- and indeed a Pakistan -- so alien to the subcontinent itself, which received Islam not by the sword but by the dhol and the beautiful music of the Sufi poets.
Samia Khan Bambrah: The Courage To Redefine Pakistan Samia Khan Bambrah 2011
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