ANDERSEN.— Maori Music. 699 
fifth above the others. This was very effective 
T h 
when speaking of music to Dr. Buck (Te Rangi Hiroa). He remarked 
rem remembered it when, at Whareponga, I first heard, as it 
were, a faint voice sounding above the voices of the women singing. 
I asked the Hon. Vgata, who was present, if the faint voice, to which 
was not always so regarded. The note heard is a harmonic, and may 
notes of birds, and it is no doubt the harmonics that form the basis of 
at least some of the morning choruses of the bellbird and tui. 
mellow voice is meant by the expression puwhawhango—a voice that 
sounds as if slightly muted, with just a trace of the effect of singing 
through a comb—a slightly nasal, resonant quality. The restricted à 
sound (ee) is avoided as much as possible, as it makes the sound thin; 
it is made e (as in “ net ") or a if it cannot be avoided, or is preceded by 
a to make ae: this is especially observed at the head-ends (line-ends). 
now here, now there, now bending at the wri 
wri 
body or head, now at arm's length ; the knees are bent in rhythmic time, 
* Obtained from Elsdon Best. 
