In 1995 Ram Prasad Kadel began collecting Nepali folk musical instruments in an attempt to rescue his nation's musical heritage. The Nepali Folk Musical Instrument Museum (NFMIM) was founded in 1997 and opened to the public in 2002 and has since grown into a vibrant and dynamic institution where people interested in Nepali folk music meet daily. Ram is neither a trained musician nor an academic musicologist but he has, over the years, acquired a comprehensive ...
