~woi okoro pound heavy bamboos vertically and repeatedly onto the ground, [...]

Part of Speech	verb-object idiom
Phonetic Form	(i·)woi okoro
Morphology	~woi + okoro

• • pound heavy bamboos vertically and repeatedly onto the ground, to mark bass rhythms while singing
  • • Mus

  Literally	pound bamboos
  Encyclopedic Info	Bamboos are especially played that way in a musical genre called buro bula okoro ‘songs for bamboos’. A handful of musicians are lined up in the centre of the village area (mane); as they pound the bamboos, they sing songs, to the sound of which the dancers dance around them.

  • • Example 1550:
      

      Kape ba-woi okoro, bai-oburo ne mane.

      We shall pound the bamboos and sing songs, in the dancing area.

      Example URL

      https://doi.org/10.24397/pangloss-0003351#S142

Related entries

• See also:
  • buro bula okoro song genre, meant to accompany on the sound of pounded bamboos
  • jokoro name of various artefacts made of bamboo / bamboo rod, of any usage / fishing rod / bamboo water-carrier / bamboo used as a stamping tube / bamboo flute; esp. Pan pipe / bamboo organ: a large panpipe-shaped instrument made of bamboos tied together / bamboo drum, as used in other Pacific islands
  • okoro bamboo / name of certain artefacts made of bamboo / a heavy bamboo, used as a stamping tube. Singers of buro bula okoro ‘bamboo songs’ stamp (~woi) the bamboo on the ground, thereby producing a deep sound as they sing along / a traditional knife made of bamboo; hence (modern) knife; bushknife, machete