When Dil Khadka was a boy in Bhutan, he made his first instrument — a bamboo flute — by hand. Inspired by the music he heard on the radio, he cut bamboo from the forest and burnt holes into it using a ...

WIND INSTRUMENTS: Deepak Darji (left) practices his shehnai in Qatar so that he does not get rusty, and so he can perform at events for a living when he returns to Nepal. Kumar BK (right) demonstrates ...

Manose Newa was just eight, growing up in Kathmandu, when a haunting, mysterious sound came through the night and stirred his soul. As he grew up, he searched for that sound, and only the sound of air ...