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) horn, Vienna horn, mellophone, marching horn, and Wagner tuba. Animal horns adapted as signalling instruments were used from prehistoric times. Archaeologists have discovered cow horns with fingerholes drilled in the side (providing a more complete musical scale) dating from the Iron Age. This type of rustic instrument is found down to the present day all over the Baltic region of Europe, and in some parts of Africa. In Scandinavia it is known by many names: "björnhorn", "bukkehorn", "fingerhorn", "lekhorn", "låthorn", "prillarhorn", "soittotorvi", "spelhorn", "tjuthorn", "tuthorn", "vallhorn", and many others. In Estonia it is called "sokusarv" and by the Bongo people