How to Make Hawaiian Musical Instruments: A Step-by-Step Guide by Jim Widess. 81 pages containing over 450 full color step-by-step photographs.

How to Make Hawaiian Musical Instruments - A Step-by-Step-Guide: Hawaii has a rich musical heritage that is carried on in the rhythmic beat of the ipu and resonant pounding of pahu drums at hula performances throughout the Islands. While many of the musical instruments that accompany hula today can be traced back to early Polynesian roots, others, like the ipu heke gourd drum, ipu hokiokio gourd nose flute and uliuli rattle, are considered to be uniquely Hawaiian, found nowhere else in the world. In the past, the only written information available on making Hawaiian musical instruments lay in the dusty notes of early anthropologists.

About the Author: Jim Widess has been providing classes in gourd crafting and basketry for more than twenty years. He is the owner of The Caning Shop in Berkeley, California, and co-author of The Caner's Handbook, Making Gourd Musical Instruments, and The Complete Book of Gourd Craft. His most recent books include Gourd Pyrography and Making Hawaiian Ribbon Leis, which is the second in a series of Hawaiian arts and crafts books by Widess and Mutual publishing.