Title: Taonga Puoro =: Singing Treasures
Description: Comprehensively covers the world of Māori musical instruments, including a background to the tunes played on the instruments, and the families of natural sounds with which they are associated. Covers various types of instruments (flutes, gourds, wood and shell trumpets, and bullroarers, for example) giving technical information along with that of the mythological and cultural context to which they belong.
Subjects: Musical instruments, Maori (New Zealand people), Music, History and criticism, Maori studies