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I am wondering why this happens that striking a string with a specific way tells us that this is a sad vibration? A vibration is vibration but we think of a particular vibration as sad,a particular tune. The problem is you cannot create any vibration from dholak that feels sad 🤣. How? Is this conditioning that we are told that such vibration is a sign of sadness.
Ritik ji, that's a sharp little catch on its own, sound has no sadness in it, the meaning gets stitched on. But notice where you stopped, you turned the question outward, onto the dholak, onto conditioning in general, instead of onto the moment you actually feel a tune as sad. The dholak not managing sadness isn't the interesting bit. The interesting bit is you, sitting with a guitar's minor chord, ready to call it grief. Next time a tune moves you, that's the spot to look, not at the instrument, at who decided this vibration means loss.
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