TRADITIONAL INSTRUMENTS
Today’s orchestras use percussion and stringed instruments. Among the percussion is the to’ere; the pahu with two skins and beaten with a stick and the pahu tupa’i rima, with one skin, that is played with the hands. The stringed instruments consist of the ukulele and the guitar.
Other instruments that had long disappeared have progressively made a come-back, those such as theihara, a split bamboo drum and the vivo, a nasal flute. Finally, all sorts of sounds are obtained by clacking stones, from shells, by using penu (piion) or coconuts.
TO’ERE
TO’ERE STICKS
PAHU DRUM
