Aboriginal instrument made from large hollow branch that's been cut to about three feet (one meter) long. The player covers his mouth with one end and blows, letting his lips flap gently. Makes a sound unlike anything else I've ever heard. One of mankind's earliest wind instruments.
a hollowed limb of mallee, used by the indigenous folk of Australia to make the unique music, probably recognisable around the world by now
a hollowed wooden musical instrument
a log that has been hollowed out by being placed in a termites' nest, and used as a
a long hand-painted wind instrument made of wood
a long straight wooden wind instrument that gives off heavy bass notes
a long wooden trumpet - like instrument used by the Aboriginal peoples of Australia
a musical instrument made from a long narrow tube of varying sizes
a musical instrument traditionally made by Australian aboriginals out of a eucalyptus branch which has been naturally hollowed out by termites
an ancient musical instrument used by the Aboriginals in their sacred ceremonies
a traditional Aboriginal woodwind instrument used during ceremonies and story-telling in Dreamtime
a traditional Australian musical instrument
a type of musical instrument , a woodwind aerophone , traditionally made out of eucalyptus or bamboo
a unique wind instrument of the indigenous northern Australians
a wooden musical instrument invented and mastered by the Aborigines of Australia
An ancient wind instrument, originating from the Northern Australian Aborigine, is made from eucalyptus that is naturally hollowed out by termites. The didge, as it is commonly called, is about 3 to 4 feet in length with Circular Breathing, a special breathing technique is used which allows players to performer continuously without stopping to take a breath. The didgeridoo is generally accepted to be the world’s oldest wind instrument.
"a drone-pipe (wind instrument), or straight wooden trumpet used by northwest [Koorie]... made from bamboo or a hollow sapling ... about 1.5 metres long. Decorated ceremonial varieties, however, may be two or three times longer" ( language=unknown variation of Koorie) [Encyclopædia Britannica; see cue/www= britannica.com]; however, the use of the term "Koorie" may be at best, incomplete and at worse, too narrow (see cue/www= http://www.nla.gov.au/niac/libs/martin.html), although it may still be better than the English
Wind instrument of the indigenous people of Australia. It's made of wood and it stretches from the ground all the way to the lips of the player, producing thunderous low notes.
The didgeridoo (or didjeridu) is a wind instrument of the Indigenous Australians of northern Australia. It is sometimes described as a natural wooden trumpet or "drone pipe". Musicologists classify it as an aerophone.