Add to ORKGPe’i is playing the purikai flute. The same songs he plays have hour-long chants with texts in the same melody as the flute music. Thus, there is a kind of language of the flutes, as the music plaid with them follows the sounds of vocals. There are different types of Aikana flutes played at festivities, for instance, the atuehẽhẽ’i (the angry grandfathers), which is played sideways by humming and talking into an incised part at the side, making an angry kind of sound, thus the name. The purikai, is a longitudinal flute with four holes, played with outstretched index and middle fingers of both hands. Few people still know how to make the purikai flutes, which were used in now extinct initiation customs. Today there is only one man left, Pe’i...