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| Keywords: Waha pūtōrino - large central aperture.jpg An example of a simple waha pūtōrino the large central aperture that acts as a finger-stop wenewene for expressing and varying the pitch and tone of the pūtōrino a traditional Māori musical instrument This is usually considered to be a mouth and is often represented as such with a carving of a facial mask around it One method of playing though no historical provenance appears to exist allows the player to express a flute voice by playing across this aperture using either the cross-blown oblique embouchure or the horizontal transverse embouchure as when playing across the top of a bottle This method creates a very low breathy and haunting voice and is popular because of its unique sound qualities own 2010-10-06 Tohunga puoro Tohunga puoro Maori musical instruments Files by User Tohunga puoro Ethnographic objects | ||||
