Should a woman ever play a man's instrument? When Nicole Kidman blew into what the innocent and uncaring call a didgeridoo, some, under the impression that the use of the instrument was confined to ...

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 ...

The ancient wind instrument may be much-maligned, but it's also a powerful symbol of Aboriginal culture. Plus, it makes novices look pretty silly ... What is it? Probably the oldest wind instrument in ...

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 ...

Australian researchers have delved deep into the world of acoustic physics to unravel part of their country's indigenous heritage: the ancient art of playing the didgeridoo. The secret of an ...

The Australian yirdaki (didgeridoo) player Alan Dargin invented a uniquely fast, powerful, non-traditional style, dubbed "rock'n'roll didgeridoo". At his favourite busking site on Sydney's Circular ...

Warner Recabaren is telling me one of the Australian origin stories of the didgeridoo, as he remembers it. It begins with a group of guys sitting around a campfire. One of them throws a stick on the ...

Daniel Orlansky has been playing the didgeridoo for 25 years in both America and Europe. He has performed in many locations, notably at Berkley College of Music, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the ...

Kate Bush has never been a stranger to dismantling imaginary boundaries in music. Throughout her career, she always looked for new ways to defy convention. And her enormously dedicated fanbase is ...

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 ...