What is "clapstick"

Clapsticks or clappers are a type of drumstick, percussion mallet or claves that serve to maintain rhythm in Aboriginal voice chants. Unlike drumsticks, which are generally used to strike a drum, clapsticks are intended for striking one stick on another.

As an ancestral instrument that may traditionally accompany the didgeridoo, it is sometimes referred to as musicstick or just Stick. In the language of the Yolngu Aborigines of Northeast Arnhem Land, in Australia these clapsticks are called bimli.

Clapstick may refer to:

• Clapperboard, a white and black striped board used in movie making
• Clapsticks, an ancestral instrument consisting of a wooden pair of sticks