Hawaii has a rich musical heritage that is carried on in the rhythmic beat if the ipu and resonant pounding of pahu drums at hula performances throughout the islands. While many of the musical instruments that accompany hula today can be traced back to early Polynesian roots, others - including the ipu heke (gourd drum), ipu hiokiokio (gourd nose flute) and the uliuli rattle - are considered to be uniquely Hawaiian. In the past, the only written information available on making Hawaiian musical instruments lay in the dusty notes of the early anthropologists. Now, for the first time, the manufacturing processes of eighteen traditional Hawaiian musical instruments are documented with carefully researched instructions, step-by-step photographs in an easy-to-follow craft guide.
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Detailed Info on Making Hawaiian Musical Instruments,
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Use a bottle gourd to make ipu heke. It shows step-by-step how to clean, cut, sand the gourd, and add a woven cord to make this instrument. Other instruments are made from river pebbles, bamboo, sticks, coconuts, and the trunk of a palm tree. Following the thorough instructions, one can make drums, rattles, a bamboo nose flute, and a conch shell trumpet.
Most users will need to substitute for supplies not locally available (the skin of a unicorn fish, for instance). The book doesn't venture into how to play most of the instruments but does give some historical detail on how they were used. These might make great class projects when studying Hawaii or Polynesian culture.
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Everything you need to know about making Hawaiian musical intstruments.
Easy to follow pictures and informative text.
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This book has made it possible for us to save hundreds of dollars because we can now make our own instruments for our dance classes and recitals. I believe that this is a MUST-HAVE for schools that do not have immediate access to ready made instruments or those that do not have the money to purchase ready made instruments. A great resource book!
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