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The entertaining sound of a didgeridoo.
(Listen to the music and reading the notes below).
Part One:
The didgeroo is used by the Aboriginals in Australia.
Here, it is played by Paul Hibberd, a New Forest ranger, who uses
it for talks about the forest, especially about insects which are
directly involved in the creation of didgeridoos.
What is a didgeroo?
It is a wooden instrument about a metre and a half long in the
shape of a hollow cylinder.
They are created naturally by termites which hollow them out.
You blow in one end, vibrate your lips and the strange sound
comes out!
The didgeridoo on the sound clip plays in C sharp. Different
lengths and shapes produce different sounds.
Musicians make the notes by vibrating their lips and changing the
shape and position of their mouth and tongue.
It's difficult not to smile when you hear it playing. It's even
more difficult to play if you smile!
The Australian boriginals understand the effect that the sound
has. They use the didgeridoo for spiritual ceremonies and dancing
Part Two:
The didgeridoo can be made to sound like lots of different things.
See if you can recognise:
A bouncing kangaroo!
An owl or a dog?
A kookabura? (A native Australian bird.)
... and a cockatoo!
Shut your eyes and imagine that you are in the Australian outback.
The owner of this didgeridoo sometimes plays it alone in the forest.
It's soulful tunes somehow feel right in among the shadows of trees.
Sometimes he plays in the dark a bit scary!
It's music (of a sort) but it always makes you smile!