Didgeridoo
Traditional musical instruments from Australian
The didgeridoo (also known as a didjeridu or didge) is a wind instrument developed by Indigenous Australians of northern Australia at least 1,500 years ago and is still in widespread usage today both in Australia and around the world. It is sometimes described as a natural wooden trumpet or "drone pipe". Musicologists classify it as a brass aerophone.
There are no reliable sources stating the didgeridoo's exact age. Archaeological studies of rock art in Northern Australia suggest that the people of the Kakadu region of the Northern Territory have been using the didgeridoo for at least 1,500 years, based on the dating of paintings on cave walls and shelters from this period. A clear rock painting in Ginga Wardelirrhmeng, on the northern edge of the Arnhem Land plateau, from the freshwater period shows a didgeridoo player and two songmen participating in an Ubarr Ceremony.A modern didgeridoo is usually cylindrical or conical, and can measure anywhere from 1 to 3 m (3 to 10 ft) long. Most are around 1.2 m (4 ft) long. The length is directly related to the 1/2 sound wavelength of the keynote. Generally, the longer the instrument, the lower the pitch or key of the instrument.
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Traditional musical instruments from Australian
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orry, the instruments in the photos are not "traditional musical instruments" from Australia. The instruments pictured are clearly non-traditional instruments made for the tourist trade, and decorated with non-traditional Aboriginal designs. Often instruments such as these are not even made by Aboriginals, though they may be painted by Aboriginals who, traditionally, did not have the didgeridoo as part of their heritage. For "real" traditional "didgeridoos," search on "yidaki" and "mago."
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