What is the name of the long wooden instrument that was made famous by Australian musicians?
Who are the people that make music in Australia?
How is wood used to make musical instruments?
Is a didgeridoo a brass instrument?
What were Aboriginal musical instruments made from?
A bullroarer consists of a weighted airfoil (a rectangular thin slat of wood about 15 cm to 60 cm long and about 1.25 cm to 5 cm wide) attached to a long cord.
The most famous Australian instrument is probably the didgeridoo, a wind instrument made from a hollowed out branch.
The gum-leaf, as the name suggests, is a leaf from a Eucalypt tree, held against the lips and blown so as to act as a vibrating valve. The sounding pitch is controlled by vocal tract resonances and is typically about an octave above the female singing voice.
didgeridoo
Didjeridu, also spelled didgeridoo or didjeridoo also called dronepipe, wind instrument in the form of a straight wooden trumpet. The instrument is made from a hollow tree branch, traditionally eucalyptus wood or ironwood, and is about 1.5 metres (5 feet) long.
