Introduction Kia ora!

[Wade Cornell]

Please will you also post an English translation

Thank you

Jx

Just a bit of local natter. Replying saying welcome and there's a lot of saxophone talk here, sometimes some tunes, and that I'm not Maori. Then asking where in NZ he lives.

 

[kelk]

Welcome to the Café!

I lived in Hawaii 17 years, went to junior and high school there in a rural part of Oahu, graduated with a college degree there also. We had a good number of Māori there. During our high school May Day festival, a group of Māori high school students would do traditional native dance for us.

We had a better show in the school gymnasium with all the different cultures doing their dances to include all the Pacific Polynesian cultures, even included those with Mexican heritage doing La Tapatia, Filipino also, and Japanese, Chinese, etc. Just the Polynesian dances alone, I think our event outdid the Polynesian Cultural Center show.

Don't know any Māori saxists, but that doesn't mean they are not here. Most of my high school classmates now live in Continental US because good paying jobs are hard to come by in Hawaii and housing is extremely expensive. It would not surprise me that some Māori from Hawaii did the same.

Out here it is Native American and various Hispanic cultures, mostly Mexican, (although our mayor's secretary is a British native. We don't need Google Translate, @mizmar .) 😉 We have someone with true Hawaiian blood who heads our local Chamber of Commerce.

But all appreciate the sax, perhaps one of the best universal instrument for all cultures.

Welcome to the forum, and hope to hear more from you!

Beautiful!! The Māori nation is quite large..for us in Aotearoa NZ it starts un Hawaii, to Tahiti, Ra'iatea, to Rapanui (Easter Island), to Rarotonga and then to us in Aotearoa. I'm glad you got to experience some of our culture in Hawaii..no doubt there are many Māori saxophonists worldwide, in our grandparents generation, saxophone was played by many (and maybe responsible for the population rapidly increasing haha!)..i love how you noted all appreciate the sax, all cultures all people.

This is what drives me to keep coming back after resting..it is time to play again.
My heart is again on fire for this beautiful friend of us all..the saxophone. Mauri ora!!

Anyways family, thanks for the warm welcome and kindness !🎷😃

 

[kelk]

Kei hea koe i Aotearoa?

Kei Whangārei, engari ka nuku au ki Papamoa a te tau 2026

 

[kelk]

Please will you also post an English translation

Thank you

Jx

Wade asked where in Aotearoa am i 😃

A big welcome ! The Café just keeps getting better and better. Thanks for joining 😃

Thanks! 🎷😃

 

[kelk]

Oh, and a big welcome to our new member. It's great to have you here. We have lots of fun!

Thanks, yeh im feeling that!

 

[Tenor Viol]

Hi, welcome. Another fan of New Zealand. My first visit was 'interrupted' by Covid and had to be abandoned. I am planning to go back probably late 2027 or early 2028.

 

[Wade Cornell]

Kei Whangārei, engari ka nuku au ki Papamoa a te tau 2026

Ngā mihi. Kei Waiatarua ahau i waenganui i a Henderson me Piha.Papamoa? He rite ki te reti. He he'e nalu koe? Ko te tumanako ka kitea e koe ētahi wāhi ki reira hei tākaro. I ētahi wā ka tākaro ahau mō ngā whare kaumātua, ā, he mea pai ki ahau. Inaa, he pakeke ake ahau i te nuinga o te iwi i reira. Hā!

Thanks. I'm in Waiatarua between Henderson and Piha.

Papamoa? That sounds like retirement. Do you surf? Hopefully you'll find some opportunities there to play. I sometimes play for retirement homes, which I enjoy. Actually I'm older than a lot of the people there. Ha!

 

[Ghr9204]

I'm glad you got to experience some of our culture in Hawaii..no doubt there are many Māori saxophonists worldwide, in our grandparents generation, saxophone was played by many (and maybe responsible for the population rapidly increasing haha!)..i love how you noted all appreciate the sax, all cultures all people.

I am now in my early 70's, my junior high and high school days were over 55 years ago. Our high school annual had a representative photo of a couple, guy and gal of every culture to include Anglo Saxon. It would not surprise me there was a photo of a Māori couple. Those selected were voted upon by the students. Unfortunately those books are packed away anticipating a move, otherwise I would be able to scan and present here if found.

Although the saxophone was prevalent, it would not surprise me that some Māori students played other instruments to include clarinet, brass and percussion, not to mention also ukulele and other string instruments.

 

[davidk]

You know the problem with that is that there are so many different accents and dialects of both British English and American English. As the saying goes, "Two nations separated by a common language."

ChatGPT has a go.

Tennessee:
Reckon the trouble with that is there’s just so many different accents and ways of talkin’, both over in Britain and here in America. Like folks always say, “Two nations, split apart by the same language.”

Glasgow:
The bother wi that is there’s just so many different accents a ways o speakin’, baith in Britain an in America. Like the sayin goes, “Two nations, split by the same language.”

 

[PigSquealer]

ChatGPT has a go.

Tennessee:
Reckon the trouble with that is there’s just so many different accents and ways of talkin’, both over in Britain and here in America. Like folks always say, “Two nations, split apart by the same language.”

Glasgow:
The bother wi that is there’s just so many different accents a ways o speakin’, baith in Britain an in America. Like the sayin goes, “Two nations, split by the same language.”

California
Yo Dude, off the wall. Bad vibes.

 

[GCinCT]

Okay, let's go with my hometown of Brooklyn. Hey, not for nuthin' but we don't all talk the same.

 

[Targa]

Liverpudlian - We talk proper, yous don't.

 

[Jeanette]

From Yorkshire according to chatgp

Reckon t’problem is there’s just that many different accents an’ ways o’ talkin’, both over in Britain an’ over there in America. Folk’re always sayin’, “Two nations, split by t’same language.”

 

[Wade Cornell]

Well kelk, as said they like to chat a lot. Your welcome party has turned into a discussion of English/American accents.

 

[kelk]

😅

 

[Ghr9204]

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