Pepa (instrument) 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 Tibetans and ancient Chinese also used similar instruments named "Rwa-dun" for religious rituals. Later, it was used as a musical instrument for festive occasions like Bihu. As the buffalo population
Horn (instrument) a modern convention, to avoid confusion with the nineteenth-century valved brass instrument of that name, though in Old French the spelling "cornette" is found. The name is a diminutive derived the Latin "cornu", "horn". In the sixteenth century still larger versions of the cornett were devised. In order to put the fingerholes within reach of the human hand, these bass instruments required so many curves they acquired the name "serpent". Toward the end of the eighteenth century various attempts were made to improve the serpent. An upright version, built on the pattern of the bassoon and made sometimes of wood,