Music of Melanesia

Vocal music is very common across Melanesia; sitting dances are also attested.

[citation needed] Hand gestures are an important part of many songs, and most traditional music is dance music.

Folk instruments include various kinds of drums and slit-log gongs, flutes, panpipes,[1] stamping tubes, rattles, among others.

[2] Occasionally, European guitars and ukuleles are also used.

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Wax cylinder recording from German New Guinea on August 23, 1904, recorded by German anthropologist Rudolf Pöch.