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The use of the calabash in Hawaii has led to terms like "calabash family" or "calabash cousins", indicating an extended family grown up around shared meals and close friendships. This gourd is often dried when ripe and used as a percussion instrument called an ipu heke (double gourd drum) or just Ipu in contemporary and ancient hula.
Gourd is occasionally used to describe crop plants in the family Cucurbitaceae, like pumpkins, cucumbers, squash, luffa, and melons. [1] More specifically, gourd refers to the fruits of plants in the two Cucurbitaceae genera Lagenaria and Cucurbita, [2] [3] or also to their hollow, dried-out shell. There are many different gourds worldwide.
Commonly, the instrument is made of a dried gourd bottle as the windchest with its narrow neck as the mouthpiece. [1] Usually, five bamboo pipes (sometimes four to seven) are inserted vertically in the gourd walls from shorter to longer respectively (from 20 to 45 cm [7.9 to 17.7 in]) and sealed with beeswax with rectangular or triangular free ...
Other names for the instrument include afuxê, afoxé, cabaca, cabasa, and cabaza depending on the language and culture. [3] The shekere is made from vine gourds that grow on the ground. The shape of the gourd determines the sound of the instrument. A shekere is made by drying the gourd for several months then removing the pulp and seeds.
Some instruments have holes instead of carved notches. Gourds may be affixed to the bottom of an instrument by tying it through holes on the side or bottom of the instrument down into holes in the gourd. The gourd acts as a resonator to improve sound. The bottom of the bowl may also have soundholes.
Musical instruments whose construction includes a gourd, or gourd-like resonator. Pages in category "Gourd musical instruments" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
The instrument's name comes from the Mandarin Chinese word húlu (葫蘆絲/葫 芦 丝), meaning "Calabash gourd," and si, meaning "silk" (referring to the instrument's smooth tone). HULUSI The instrument is called pi lamtao in the Dai (Tai Nuea) language of Dehong and "pi namtao" in Lue language ( Sipsong Panna ), Khun language ( Kengtung ...
ʻUlīʻulī are used in kahiko performances to maintain timing and to enhance sounds created simultaneously through chanting and other instruments like the ipu and pūʻili. Hula ʻauana , a more modern style of hula, are performed for a larger, global audience and have broadened meanings to incorporate narratives about love and Hawaiian identity.