. . . "The dholak (Punjabi: \u0A22\u0A4B\u0A32\u0A15, Bengali: \u09A2\u09CB\u09B2\u0995, Hindi: \u0922\u094B\u0932\u0915; Dutch: dhool in the Netherlands and Suriname and Sinhalese: \u0DA9\u0DDC\u0DBD\u0DCA\u0D9A\u0DD2) is a South Asian two-headed hand-drum.It may have traditional cotton rope lacing, screw-turnbuckle tensioning or both combined: in the first case steel rings are used for tuning or pegs are twisted inside the laces. The dholak is mainly a folk instrument, lacking the exact tuning and playing techniques of the tabla or the pakhawaj."@en . .