Taonga pūoro
Māori traditional musical instruments / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Taonga pūoro are the traditional musical instruments[1] of the Māori people of New Zealand.
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The instruments previously fulfilled many functions within Māori society including a call to arms, dawning of the new day, communications with the gods and the planting of crops.[2] They are significant in sacred ritual and also fulfill a story-telling role. Many of the sounds of the instruments and tunes are imitations of the sounds of nature, including the wind, the seas and the natural world of birds and insects.
Knowledge of taonga pūoro has been revived over the past thirty years by Hirini Melbourne, Richard Nunns and Brian Flintoff.