<u>Editorial Essay</u>
<h2><u>Our folk musical instruments, our identity</u>
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As we know that the folk musical instruments are those instruments that represent the culture, caste, and society of a certain place. Each community has its own culture, rituals, and traditions which may be similar but most of them were different to a particular place. Nepal is rich in cultural diversity that is why different culture is found in Nepal. Our folk musical instruments are part of them which represent us and our identity.
Today's era is the era of science and technology, due to this person of our country are not giving interest to our culture and activities. they were influenced by western culture. They start to talk in English to Nepali people, they don't even say we have our dresses. let's take an example; Khin, Murali, and Jhyali are the common musical instruments of the Newar community living in Kathmandu valley and other cities of Nepal but we see few old Newars involved in it. These musical instruments indicate the Newari society in Kathmandu. Similarly, Yalamber is a popular musical instrument of the Kirats of eastern Nepal. Sarangi is the typical musical instrument for the Gandarbha community of the Kaski district. Ektare is used by the sages and ascetics only whereas Damphu is an essential musical instrument of Tamangs. Panchae Baja is played by Damai in the wedding ceremony. Thus, we can say that folk musical instruments represent us, our culture, our society, and give us our identity.
Our folk musical instruments give us our native identity, though the use of folk musical instruments is decreasing day by day. To preserve our identity, we need to Preserve our folk musical instruments, our culture, our tradition, and our rituals. we need to perform a cultural program. we need to aware people by educating them about the importance of Preserving our folk musical instruments. let's preserve our folk musical instruments and preserve our own identity.
