Fiji and the Fijians . GIUL PLATING ON THE DRUMS AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. troduced, whose grotesque movements elicit immense applause. In aregular dress or feast dance, two companies are always engaged,—themusicians and the dancers. Twenty or thirty persons constitute the 130 FIJI AND THE FIJIANS. orchestral force, while the dancers often number one or two performance of the musicians is on one note, the bass alternatingwith the air: they then sound one of the common chords in the bassclef, without the alternation. Several of them elicit clear notes fromthe long stick
Fiji and the Fijians . GIUL PLATING ON THE DRUMS AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. troduced, whose grotesque movements elicit immense applause. In aregular dress or feast dance, two companies are always engaged,—themusicians and the dancers. Twenty or thirty persons constitute the 130 FIJI AND THE FIJIANS. orchestral force, while the dancers often number one or two performance of the musicians is on one note, the bass alternatingwith the air: they then sound one of the common chords in the bassclef, without the alternation. Several of them elicit clear notes fromthe long stick by hitting it with a shorter one; others produce a sort oftambourine sound by striking their bamboos on the ground; the restclap their hands, and all give vocal help. They keep excellent time,and the words sung refer either to the occasion, or to some event intheir past history. The dancers are gaily dressed; and as all bear clubs or spears, andperform a series of marchings, steppings, halts, and varied evolutions,a stranger would rather suppose the
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