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EPISODE · Feb 10, 2025

From the Fangufangu to the panpipes — where did our traditional instruments go, and which sounds are making a comeback now?

from Culture Compass · host Australian Broadcasting Corporation

John Kanai grew up watching his uncles and grandfathers blow and beat the traditional bamboo panpipes in Malaita, his Solomon Islands home.They've continued panpipe tradition for many years, but in other parts of the Pacific, the sounds of our ancestors were forced to stop when colonial missionaries arrived.

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