With permission from Australia's Aboriginal people, it's time to proclaim the didgeridoo as our national instrument, writes Dean Frenkel. The didgeridoo is the sound of Australia. Many countries and ...

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You might not expect an ancient Aboriginal instrument from Australia to find its way to Alaska. But walk around downtown Ketchikan on a warm day and you may hear 15-year-old Kinani Halvorsen playing ...

Music has been described as the language that unifies us all. And indeed, many can relate to its beneficial qualities. But it’s not every day that we look to an instrument to heal. On its website, the ...

The didgeridoo is traditionally made from a small tree trunk whose core has been eaten by termites. It usually plays only one note, with the player's lips vibrating at a frequency near a maximum in ...

The instrument – fabled into existence tens of thousands of years ago, but more familiar to Western ears in the last few decades – is made from the branches of the eucalyptus and gum trees. Hollowed ...

Pitz Quattrone has always loved strange sounds. “I was the kid in the back of the classroom, making weird sounds, funny sounds, trying to get my friends to laugh, and driving the teacher crazy,” he ...

Alan Dargin, regarded as one of the lead exponents of the didgeridoo, died Feb. 24, from a cerebral haemorrhage following a stroke. He was 40. By Christie Eliezer Alan Dargin, regarded as one of the ...

Kept awake at night by a snoring partner? It might be a good idea to ask them to take up playing the didgeridoo. New Swiss research has found that playing the didgeridoo can help reduce snoring and ...

Objective To assess the effects of didgeridoo playing on daytime sleepiness and other outcomes related to sleep by reducing collapsibility of the upper airways in patients with moderate obstructive ...

Aboriginal leaders in Australia have called for a book teaching girls how to play the didgeridoo to be scrapped. The Australian version of the Daring Book for Girls is due to be published next month.