- 1. Hano: nose flute
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- 2. Hokeo kani: wind instrument
-
- 3. Hokiokio: gourd whistle
-
- 4. `Ili'ili: small, smooth, black stones
sometimes call Hawaiian castanets. 2 stones are
- placed in each hand and struck together to make a
clicking sound
-
- 5. Ipu: drum consisting of a single gourd
or made of two large gourds of unequal size joined
- together
-
- 6. Ipu heke: gourd drum with a top section
-
- 7. Ipu heke `ole: single drum gourd without
a top section
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- 8. Ipu hoehoe: gourd whistle
-
- 9. Ipu hula: dance drum made of two gourds
sewed together
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- 10. Ipu pa`i: gourd drum
-
- 11. Ipu uai, ipu uwai, ipu wai: movable gourd
drum
-
- 12. Kä: drum beater made from dried
ti-leaves, usually braided, used on the püniu
-
- 13. Käla`au: dancing sticks varying in
length. The shorter sticks are approximately 12-14
inches.
- Another type is a longer stick about 6 inches taller
than the dancer, held in the left hand,
- with a much shorter stick, about 14 inches in length,
held in the right hand. The ancient
- käla`au were made from hau, kauila or milo wood
with tiki carvings on one end. The advent
- of christianity removed the tiki, but retained simple
carvings. One stick was struck on the
- other, then rolled along the other stick to make a
clacking sound. Today, there are no
- carvings and the sticks are simply struck, one upon
the other
-
- 14. Kä`eke`eke: bamboo pipes, varying in
length from one to several feet; usually with one
- end open. A player holds one vertically in each hand,
tapping down on a mat or the ground.
- The tone varies according to the size of the tube.
Several musicians might play at once
-
- 15. Nï`au Kani: A true Jew's harp, made
of a thin strip of wood, about 4 inches long and
- 1 inch wide, with a coconut midrib (niau) or bamboo
strip lashed length wise; played
- almost like the `ukëkë
-
- 16. Pahu: drum usually made from trunk of the
coconut tree varying in size from about 1 foot
- to 3-4 feet, with a sharkskin covering. The skin is
taken from the right side of the shark
-
- 17. Pahu Pa`i: small sharkskin hula drum
-
- 18. Pahupahu: same as Kä`eke`eke
-
- 19. Papa Hehi: footboard, used for dancing;
treadle
-
- 20. Pü: large triton conch shell
-
- 21. Pü Lä`ï: ti leaf whistle
-
- 22. Pü`ili: bamboo rattles about 20
inches long and about 1 and 1/2 inches in diameter,
- with node at one end used as the handle. Bamboo is
slit lengthwise, slivers between
- strands removed, that allows the bamboo to rattle or
rustle.
-
- 23. Püniu: small knee drum made from half
a coconut shell. The drum skin is usually from
- the Kala fish
-
- 24. `Ukëkë: a variety of musical
bow, fifteen inches to two feet long and about an inch
and
- a half wide, with two or commonly three strings,
drawn through holes at one end. The
- strings were strummed. The old experts made no sound
with the vocal cords, but the
- mouth cavity acted as a resonance chamber. The
resulting sound suggested speech and
- trained persons could understand this language. It
was sometimes used for love making
-
- 25. `Ulili: A musical instrument consisting of
3 la`amia pierced by a stick; a string is attached
- to the center gourd, wound around the stick and when
pulled, twirls the gourds and makes
- a whirring sound. The outer gourds usually contain
ali`ipoe seeds or shells
-
- 26. `Ulï`ulï: gourd rattle,
containing ali`ipoe seeds with colored feathers at the
top, used for
- the hula `ulï`ulï; to rattle
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