Pepa (instrument) is dwindling gradually in Assam due to shrinking pastoral lands, getting a pepa is currently very difficult. Cost of a pepa in market has even reached ₹2500 in recent years. Pepa (instrument) The pepa is a hornpipe musical instrument that is used in traditional music in Assam, India. It is usually made with the horn of a buffalo. "Pepa" is a hornpipe which has been used during Bihu celebrations since ancient times. It was mostly blown by the Deori priests in olden times to imitate the music needed to summon Tian gods, much like the Shofar used by Jews. The
Horn (instrument) opera "I trionfi del fato" (produced in 1695 in Hanover) also used horns. At about this same time the horn began to appear as a solo instrument. An anonymous "Sonata da caccia con un cornu" from before 1680 found in a manuscript in Kroměříž sets a "cor à plusieurs tours" against two violins, two violas, and basso continuo, and a "Sonata venatoria" from 1684 by Pavel Josef Vejvanovský calls for two "trombae breves", which probably also means spiral horns, though hooped horns are not out of the question. A particularly significant composition is a Concerto à 4 in B by