If you have ever watched the television show “Survivor” or a “Foster’s” commercial you have probably heard that annoying but rather interesting noise in the background music. The instrument that is capable of making such a strange noise is called a didgeridoo. The didgeeridoo is a strange type of trumpet that is used by the Aboriginal people of northern Australia. It is used just as we use our musical instruments for singing and dancing or ceremony and entertainment. It is thought to be one of the oldest instruments still used around the world today. It’s recorded history goes back nearly 1500 years but it is probable that it has been around much longer.
The way it is created is what brings man to believe that
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The player must develop a technique called circular breathing where he or she inhales through the nose, stores air in their cheeks, and exhales through their mouth without stopping the air flow through the horn.
The word didgeridoo comes from the word bamboo. Most researchers believe that the first ones were made from bamboo sticks although they are now made from eucalyptus trees. “According to Prof. Trevor Jones there are at least 45 different synonyms for the didgeridoo” (What is 1). Most of the Aborigine tribes came up with their own name for it. Some of the names are, artawin, garnbak, djibolu and yirtakki.
It is considered a male instrument in the Aboriginal society, however females are allowed to play it in some areas of northern Australia. They may play it for entertainment but never for ceremonies. In some areas the women are not allowed to touch a didgeridoo, because the people in the tribes think that this could curse them in some way. Of course this belief is not enforced globally so there are plenty of young women learning to play it today. To non-aboriginal men and women the didgeridoo is seen as just another historical instrument and does not have near the symbolism it does to the
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Breathing: Put fingers under nose and mouth to feel breaths or see rise and fall of chest
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