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- noun   A particular kind of wind instrument , originally fromAustralia , which produces verylow -pitched sounds .
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Examples
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								Tom has been playing music most of his life and the didjeridu for the past 12 years. Portland Book Events: January 25-31 - Reading Local: Portland 2009 
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								This piece was the highlight for me at last year's Other Minds Music Festival didjeridu player Stephen Kent and composer Sculthorpe are pictured above and I can't recommend the concert highly enough. From Bach to Barber and Elgar to Sculthorpe sfmike 2007 
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								This piece was the highlight for me at last year's Other Minds Music Festival didjeridu player Stephen Kent and composer Sculthorpe are pictured above and I can't recommend the concert highly enough. Archive 2007-11-01 sfmike 2007 
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								As it turned out, the didjeridu sounded completely organic, and the entire piece was indescribably beautiful. Archive 2006-12-01 sfmike 2006 
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								The University of New South Wales, School of Physics, site has other good pages on Vocal tract acoustics, the acoustics of various instruments such as the didjeridu; and research on cochlear implants. Why opera is unintelligible Ray Girvan 2004 
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								Armirkhanian asked Sculthorpe how he could just add another instrument to a finished quartet, and the reply was that the piece had always moved with a low, resonant hum that tied it to the flat, Outback landscape and that the didjeridu fit his intention perfectly. Archive 2006-12-01 sfmike 2006 
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								The University of New South Wales, School of Physics, site has other good pages on Vocal tract acoustics, the acoustics of various instruments such as the didjeridu; and research on cochlear implants. Archive 2004-01-01 Ray Girvan 2004 
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								Armirkhanian asked Sculthorpe how he could just add another instrument to a finished quartet, and the reply was that the piece had always moved with a low, resonant hum that tied it to the flat, Outback landscape and that the didjeridu fit his intention perfectly. 12th Other Minds Music Festival Part 2 sfmike 2006 
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								As it turned out, the didjeridu sounded completely organic, and the entire piece was indescribably beautiful. 12th Other Minds Music Festival Part 2 sfmike 2006 
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								This is immersive stuff, ranging from vast expanses of sound to something closer in timbre to a digital didjeridu. 
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