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<font color=#000000FF>[ipu beat]</font>

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<font color=#000000FF>The instrument that</font>
<font color=#000000FF>I'm holding is an ipu heke ʻole. </font>

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<font color=#000000FF>Each ipu takes about nine months to grow.</font>

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<font color=#000000FF>[ipu beat continues]</font>

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<font color=#000000FF>Ipu heke ʻole are important to the art</font>
<font color=#000000FF> and practice of hula</font>

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<font color=#000000FF>because it allows hula dancers</font>
<font color=#000000FF> to stay in sync</font>

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<font color=#000000FF>as they tell their story through the hula</font>
<font color=#000000FF> they are dancing.</font>

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<font color=#000000FF>Sometimes Iʻll make an ipu and </font>

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<font color=#000000FF>by the time it's done,</font>
<font color=#000000FF> I didn't even know how it got done.</font>

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<font color=#000000FF>I think that's why</font>
<font color=#000000FF> a lot of people do enjoy</font>

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<font color=#000000FF>working with ipu or working with gourds</font>
<font color=#000000FF> is because</font>

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<font color=#000000FF>you just take your time</font>
<font color=#000000FF> and you reveal the natural beauty.</font>

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<font color=#000000FF>Hula is a sound of these islands.</font>

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<font color=#000000FF>Thus, the heartbeat</font>
<font color=#000000FF>of the Hawaiian people.</font>

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<font color=#000000FF>Aloha. I'm Ranger Sean.</font>

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<font color=#000000FF>Aloha, I'm Kalim.</font>

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<font color=#000000FF>Join us as we make an ipu heke ʻole.</font>