Panche baja

The Panche baja' (Nepali: पञ्चे बाजा, 'five musical instruments') is a set of five traditional Nepali musical instruments that are played during holy ceremonies, especially marriages. Panche bajas are usually played by the Damai and the Gaine castes in the Hindu tradition.^[1] They are played using the rhythm of folk Nepali songs. It is named as Panchje Baja because in Nepali panch ( ५ ) means 5 and the set includes five different types of instruments and baaja means musical instruments.

The first part of the term is also transliterated panche, panchai, or pancai; the latter also as baaja.

^ Hao Huang (1999). Music in the 20th century. M.E. Sharp. p. 598. ISBN 978-0-7656-8012-9. Retrieved 24 March 2012.. In Nepal, musicians belong to two untouchable castes (groups of the lowest class in India, whom members of the four main castes were once forbidden to touch), the Damai and the Gaine. The ensembles are known as panche baja

[Huang1999-1] Hao Huang (1999). Music in the 20th century. M.E. Sharp. p. 598. ISBN 978-0-7656-8012-9. Retrieved 24 March 2012.. In Nepal, musicians belong to two untouchable castes (groups of the lowest class in India, whom members of the four main castes were once forbidden to touch), the Damai and the Gaine. The ensembles are known as panche baja

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