A piwancha is a Nepali chordophone with two strings and a drum at one end.
[1][2] It is a bowed instrument believed to have been played by members of the jyapu caste of Newars in the Kathmandu Valley during the Malla period.
[3] No original artifacts have survived, though images have enabled the creation of reproductions.
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