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Kōauau are traditional blown pipes. The number of holes varies, although three is the most common, and it is usually played with two hands. Kōauau were manufactured from bone, including especially human bone and albatross wing bones, and from wood, and, very rarely, stone. The sound of the instrument varies with the material. They were shaped with the use of several traditional tools, such as drills and chisels. Often embellished with carvings or markings, and burnished with various substances, they could be worn as personal adornments. |
| The pipe and tabor and the pandean pipes, are colonial imports to New Zealand from England. |
In New Zealand in 1827 at the crowded Sandy Bay races on New Year's Day: "the notes of the rustic Pandean pipe and drum mixed with those of the more jocund fiddle" |
1850 Ball  WELLINGTON INDEPENDENT, VOLUME VI, ISSUE 469, 10 APRIL 1850, PAGE 3 |
| 1857 ‘Local Intelligence’
Address as spoken by Mrs W H Foley on the Occasion of Opening the Theatre Royal, Lyttelton  LYTTELTON TIMES, VOLUME VIII, ISSUE 493, 25 JULY 1857, PAGE 4 |
1865 article on governing New Zealand: |
| about 1870 quite a few Morris sides emigrated en-bloc to New Zealand. |
1878 advertisement for Uncle Tom’s suits: TARANAKI HERALD, VOLUME XXVI, ISSUE 2893, 10 AUGUST 1878, PAGE 3 |
1878 poem 'Sweet Peace'  NEW ZEALAND MAIL, ISSUE 347, 5 OCTOBER 1878, PAGE 3 |
1881 NELSON HARMONIC SOCIETY'S CONCERT. NELSON EVENING MAIL, VOLUME XVI, ISSUE 233, 30 SEPTEMBER 1881, PAGE 2 |
1882 'Eli' an oratorio performed by the Choral Society: NEW ZEALAND HERALD, VOLUME XIX, ISSUE 6410, 3 JUNE 1882, PAGE 6 |
1885 talk at the Theatre Royal, Christchurch;
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1886 poem: |
20th century  by Francis Shurrock |
 2016 Aahmes Quince, New Zealand |
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