Didgeridoo Facts & Interesting Information

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Didgeridoo Facts and Interesting InfoRMATION

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BACKGROUND

• The didgeridoo was developed by Indigenous
  Australians sometime within the last 1,500 years.
• Fun fact, the word didgeridoo is actually a
  western invention from the early 20th century,
  inspired by the sound produced by the instrument.
• Aboriginal people used and still use a lot of
  different names for the didgeridoo, depending on
  their location in Australia.
• Traditionally only men played the didgeridoo
  during ceremonial rites, even though women have
  always played informally.

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DIDGERIDOO FACTS

• The Didgeridoo is a wooden BRASS instrument
  thought to have originated in Arnhem Land,
  Northern Territory, Australia.
• Researchers have suggested it may be the world's
  oldest musical instrument, The oldest cave
  painting were dated 3000 to 5000 years old. It
  can be over 40,000 years old.
• There is a little evidence of the didgeridoo
  being used as far south as the Alice Springs
  region of Australia, but traditionally never in
  the southern three quarters of the country.

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• It has been suggested that the Didgeridoo was an
  adaptation of traded instruments from India
  and/or Asia, this is possibly why it was mainly
  used by coastal tribes of the far North of
  Australia.
• Traditional didgeridoos were made from eucalyptus
  tree trunks and limbs hollowed out, while still
  living, by termites, (a small insect like an ant
  but a relative of the cockroach) or from bamboo
  in the far north of Australia.
• Traditionally the termite hollowed Didgeridoo was
  cut to an average length of 130 to 160cm and
  cleaned out with a stick or sapling.

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• Today didgeridoos are made from a large variety
  of materials such as Glass, Leather, Hemp Fibre,
  Ceramic, Plastic, Fibreglass, Carbon Fibre, solid
  timbers carved out, logs drilled out,
  dried/hollowed Agave cactus stems, Aluminium and
  other metals and just about any material which
  can be formed into a hollow tube!
• The didgeridoo was traditionally used as an
  accompaniment along with chants, singers with
  Bilma (Tapping sticks) and dancers, often in
  ceremonies.

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• Today the didgeridoo is heard in almost every
  style of music, rock, jazz, blues, pop, hip hop,
  electronic, techno, funk, punk, rap etc. There
  are truly no limits to the use of this awesome
  instrument.
• In a few aboriginal groups in certain ceremonies
  men only played the didgeridoo, but in many
  groups, outside of ceremony, men, women and
  children played it.
• The word didgeridoo can be spelt many different
  ways, none of which are Aboriginal names for the
  instrument. The word "didgeridoo" was a western
  word given to the instrument around 100 years
  ago. For more info see

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