1. Every Upapakkavadyam remains in a state of rest or a state of performance unless forced to change its state by the mridangam

2. The volume setting of the mridangam mike is directly proportional to how much older the mridangam player is to the upapakkavadyam player and inversely proprotional to the size of the hall.

3. Every noisy mridangist is opposed by an equally noisy echo