Crossword clues for didgeridoo
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1924, Australian, of imitative origin.
Wiktionary
n. A musical instrument endemic to the Top End of Australia, consisting of a long hollowed out log, which, when blown into, produces a low, deep mesmerise drone with sweeping rhythms.
Wikipedia
The didgeridoo (also known as a didjeridu) is a wind instrument developed by Indigenous Australians of northern Australia potentially within the last 1,500 years and still in widespread use 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 less than 1,000 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 (that was begun 1500 years ago) 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 long. Most are around long. Generally, the longer the instrument, the lower its pitch or key. However, flared instruments play a higher pitch than unflared instruments of the same length.
Usage examples of "didgeridoo".
Twenty-thousand-year-old song lines a didgeridoo pulse in the red earth, protecting, anointing, barring all predators from their union.
As an archaeologist, he had heard didgeridoo before, though it had been nothing like this.
In his hands the didgeridoo became a living thing, an imprisoned orchestra, an insistent long-distance call to an atavistic past that went beyond music to penetrate to the heart of whatever it was that made its listeners human.
If anything, his playing grew more insistent, more convoluted, evolving into the didgeridoo equivalent of a fugue.
Putting aside didgeridoo and bullroarer, the two elders instantly rushed to her aid.
Using his didgeridoo, a grinning Kuwarra blew a soft honk at a galah winging its way over the chasm.
As they did so, Kuwarra unslung his didgeridoo from his back, his movements as swift and precise as those of a samurai unsheathing his sword.
Clutching his didgeridoo, he stood in shorts and shirt, his eyes alive with delight, his white beard streaked with blue as if he had pushed his face deep into a brightly colored birthday cake.
City Walk, the eerie hollow sounds of the didgeridoo drifted through the warm air and around the lunchtime shoppers.
Her eyes fluttered shut and the imagined melodic throbbing hum of a distant didgeridoo began to impose itself on her consciousness.
He could see the glow of the campfires above the treeline, hear the chant of songs, the haunting drone of the didgeridoo and the throbbing of music sticks.
The didgeridoo is played with the greatest respect for all the aboriginal people of Australia and the spirit of all first world people.
The didgeridoo player arrived just in time, as Isa was trying to persuade Lewis to throw away his brown fedora.
The voice of the didgeridoo was a call from far away, from centuries back.
The didgeridoo sounded like an enormous animal panting at the end of its life.