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Description: | The sound of this hornpipe is made by a single beating reed within a bamboo windcap or mouthpiece. It has a bamboo tube with four fingerholes, and a buffalo horn bell. The New Year is celebrated in mid-April in a number of Indian states, and in Assam it is marked by the most important annual festival, rangali bihu. The pepa is played for rangali bihu dances, mostly performed by young unmarried people, wearing Assamese clothes of golden coloured silk. The sound of the melodies played on the pepa is loud enough to be heard over the bihu dhol drums and cymbals that mark the rhythm of the dances. In London the instrument can sometimes be heard live, but more often in recordings of bihu dances played at the rangali bihu celebrations of members of the London Bihu Committee, composed mainly of members of the Assamese Diaspora community. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum, London | Subjects: | Communities | Temporal: | 2004-01 | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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