Traditional pipe bands, once essential to weddings in Pakistan, are struggling to resonate with modern audiences and bring in viable income. What's driving their decline?
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00:00Music
00:18The world has come to an end and we have become very backward.
00:22Everything has become electric.
00:24By the way, drums have become electric,
00:26guitars have become electric,
00:28mandolins have become electric,
00:30audios have become electric,
00:32harmoniums have become electric.
00:34Everything has become electric.
00:36We have become very backward
00:38because we don't have an electric system.
00:40Music
00:47I came here with my father in 2007.
00:51There is a lot of difference between then and now.
00:55There is a lot of difference.
00:5710% of work is left and 90% of work is not left.
01:01People used to come to us and ask
01:03what kind of a wedding day should we have
01:05so that you will be available for us.
01:07Now the work is that
01:09we sit for 2-3 weeks,
01:11so that we can sit without work
01:13even for a month.
01:15Music
01:27The situation is that
01:29we may be forced to leave work
01:31because we have our own
01:33background circuit
01:35which is also running with great difficulty
01:37just because we don't have work.
01:39Now we only work on Fridays and Saturdays.
01:41Music
01:53The reason we called them here
01:55for this function was
01:57that without them
01:59our wedding,
02:01the Punjab culture,
02:03is incomplete
02:05apart from band playing.
02:07They have their own color
02:09so that we can promote them
02:11and keep our culture alive.
02:13Music
02:19There is a class of society
02:21which does not even like them.
02:25Many people say
02:27that they are not good at playing dhol.
02:29Music