Genie, I don't have the tape from New Zealand any more.

It does sound Western, but that's okay. It didn't seem to take very long for native people conquered by Westerners to figure out the advantages of the scale and of modern instruments. And then to copy popular styles.

I think of the scales and chords as world accomplishents. Kind of like pottery, woodworking and soap, they cannot be claimed by any one culture.