ukeken.
/uːˈkeɪkeɪ/ A Hawaiian stringed instrument consisting of a strip of wood with two or three strings that are played with the fingers and mouth.
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1891 W. D. Alexander Brief Hist. Hawaiian People xiv. 91 The ukeke was a strip of flexible wood or bamboo, mounted with two or three strings of olona or of cocoanut fiber.
1970 Western Folklore 29 239 The guitar was introduced [into Polynesia]..in 1879 by Portuguese immigrants, the only native stringed instrument being the two- or three-stringed ukeke, which was never played with a slider.
1980 New Grove Dict. Music XIX. 323/2 There is no string instrument native to Hawaii other than the ukeke, a musical bow.
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