Hard music word search
Taonga pūoro, the kōauau and a full orchestra: twenty-eight music words from the kapa haka stage to the concert hall. They hide in all eight directions in an eighteen by eighteen grid.
- Band
- Choir
- Clarinet
- Concert
- Conductor
- Drums
- Guitar
- Harmony
- Kapa haka
- Kōauau
- Melody
- Microphone
- Orchestra
- Piano
- Poi
- Pūtōrino
- Recorder
- Rhythm
- Saxophone
- Singing
- Tambourine
- Taonga pūoro
- Tī rākau
- Trumpet
- Ukulele
- Violin
- Waiata
- Xylophone
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Name
| N | T | L | E | E | N | O | H | P | O | X | A | S | N | R | W | F | L |
| I | O | S | L | T | N | G | R | M | E | U | K | U | L | E | L | E | K |
| D | N | M | R | I | O | R | C | H | E | S | T | R | A | C | I | C | T |
| M | N | X | K | R | I | F | O | R | I | O | H | C | V | O | P | L | N |
| A | T | Y | W | A | N | H | I | T | E | G | S | T | L | R | M | A | R |
| O | S | L | A | K | P | C | A | D | C | T | U | U | H | D | H | R | B |
| E | I | O | I | A | T | A | M | B | O | U | R | I | N | E | T | I | D |
| S | T | P | A | U | B | A | H | O | R | V | D | U | T | R | Y | N | R |
| O | H | H | T | S | A | E | O | A | A | P | E | N | M | A | H | E | H |
| T | G | O | A | E | N | U | N | N | K | H | U | U | O | P | R | T | A |
| U | R | N | L | R | D | D | A | O | G | A | L | T | T | C | E | L | I |
| L | T | E | I | A | M | I | O | O | H | A | M | F | O | E | R | T | P |
| N | I | G | C | G | O | O | V | I | K | P | P | E | L | R | O | H | I |
| A | F | G | H | N | N | I | N | O | C | A | O | U | D | U | I | O | A |
| A | L | R | E | O | O | I | A | Y | A | E | F | R | O | B | P | N | N |
| Y | L | F | L | L | S | C | S | X | D | D | U | S | C | R | C | A | O |
| U | X | K | I | R | P | A | N | U | S | M | O | H | I | I | O | Y | P |
| E | T | N | B | N | R | R | E | A | S | Y | D | O | L | E | M | E | O |
Find these words
- Band
- Choir
- Clarinet
- Concert
- Conductor
- Drums
- Guitar
- Harmony
- Kapa haka
- Kōauau
- Melody
- Microphone
- Orchestra
- Piano
- Poi
- Pūtōrino
- Recorder
- Rhythm
- Saxophone
- Singing
- Tambourine
- Taonga pūoro
- Tī rākau
- Trumpet
- Ukulele
- Violin
- Waiata
- Xylophone
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About this word search
Taonga pūoro are traditional Māori instruments, such as the kōauau, a small flute played with the breath, and the pūtōrino, which can be played both as a flute and as a trumpet. From the 1980s Hirini Melbourne and Richard Nunns helped bring them back, and today they are heard in schools and concert halls alike.
The grid is eighteen by eighteen and the words run in all eight directions, backwards too. Taonga pūoro is the longest with eleven letters, then microphone and tambourine with ten. Poi has three. Macrons disappear in the grid, so look for PUTORINO and KOAUAU. The X in xylophone and saxophone and the Y in rhythm, melody and harmony are useful anchors.
Sort the found instruments into those you blow, hit, pluck or sing, then try to name one New Zealand musician for each group.
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