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Karanga-a-Hape

K Road

Soft drone, then a disco groove.

  • E-WS-C
  • Central family
  • Pūtōrino signature

Why Karanga-a-Hape sounds like this

A soft drone holds, then a disco groove kicks in. The name remembers the call of Hape, a Tainui ancestor. A karanga belongs to the women who perform it, so the chime doesn't fake one, and the drone holds the place where a real call, recorded with mana whenua, could go. The disco is for K Road itself, Auckland's late-night strip and the heart of its rainbow community for decades.

Inside the chime

Karanga-a-Hape's chime runs about 5 seconds, in two parts. Every station's chime ends on its family's signature, so you can tell roughly where you are by ear.

  1. 1

    Karanga-a-Hape's own motif 4.0 s

    Soft drone, then a disco groove. No other station plays it.

  2. 2

    The Central family's pūtōrino 0.9 s

    A pūtōrino plays two notes, the second a fifth lower. It belongs to the four tunnel stations of the City Rail Link.

On the network

Te WaihorotiuKaranga-a-HapeYou are hereMaungawhauKingslandMorningsideParnellGrafton

The Central family

4 stations end on the pūtōrino: The four tunnel stations, Waitematā to Maungawhau.