About this item: Another short flute is the nguru which has a semi enclosed bore and softer sound. This nguru has pepe, a male moth, carved below it. He is shown as a moth ‘person’ with his hands becoming wings and also with antenae which merge with the flute. He has heard the music and come thinking that it is his sweetheart .

About Taonga Puoro: In Maori Music traditions musical instruments are members of the families of the Gods. Tunes are named Rangi after the Sky Father to whom they ascend after being sounded and Rhythms  come from the heartbeats of Papa, the Earth Mother. Their children, Hine pu te Hue, Tane, and Tawhiri Matea, their Great uncle Tangaroa and a grandchild, Raukatauri, Goddess of flute music, are most of the ancestors of a wide range of musical instruments.

Material: Recycled Matai