I have been collecting folksongs in the islands to the north of Australia, and quite a number of the old songs go to tunes of the South Sea Island style, those old Hawaiian hula things. The Tamure tune for instance was one that I collected to different words, and I would like to know something about the origin of this and other similar songs. I am publishing some small books for the schools up there as they have no way of getting hold of their traditional songs in print. Are there any online sources of these tunes, or is anyone an expert in this rather old-fashioned style of music that is so unfashionable today.None of our local music shops have any collections of this type, nor do they know of any.

Ron Edwards