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Like India, Nepal has several castes of musicians. These include the damai, who are both musicians and tailors, and the gaine, who were originally fisherman but are now travelling minstrels. The gaine perform for various patrons in exchange for food or other necessaries. They typically play the sarangi, a four-stringed, hand-carved instrument. Damai are perhaps best-known for their participation in panchai baja , a form of weddingThis article is about the marriage ceremony. For the former borough in Berlin, see Wedding, Berlin. Aswan, Egypt A wedding is a civil or religious ceremony at which the beginning of a marriage is celebrated. In most societies, a number of wedding traditio band consisting of drums, horns cymbalIt is also possible that you want to know about the Cymbalum instrument. Cymbals (Fr. cymbales; Ger. Becken; Ital. piatti or cinelli), are a modern percussion instrument. Cymbals consist of thin, normally round plates of various cymbal alloys, see cymbals and shawmThe shawm was a Renaissance musical instrument of the woodwind family, made in Europe from the late 13th century until the 17th century. It was ancestral to the modern oboe. It had a long bore which started straight but widened into a conical end, and hads. The highly-ritualized wedding ceremony includes a specific tune for the panchai baja to play in each section. In Kathmandu Valley , the panchai baja has been supplanted by brass band1890 A brass band is a musical group consisting mostly of brass instruments, often with a percussion section. In some traditions other types of instruments like a clarinet or saxophones may be added, but other traditions do not accept woodwinds as part ofs.

The ancient NewarThe Newar are the indigenous ethnolinguistic group of Nepal's Kathmandu valley. According to Nepals 2001 census, the 1,245,232 Newar in the country are the nation's sixth largest ethnic group, representing 5. 48% of the population. The main Newar language people are well-known for maskThis article is about masks fitted on the face as an article of clothing or equipment. See Mask (disambiguation) for other meanings. A mask is a piece of material or kit worn on the face. Masks have been used since antiquity for both ceremonial and practied danceDance generally refers to human movement either used as a form of expression or presented in a social, spiritual or performance setting. Dance is also used to describe methods of non-verbal communication between humans or animals ( bee dance, mating dances which tell stories of the gods and heroes. The music is percussion-based, sometimes with flutes or shawm accompanying the intense, nasal vocals.