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  • noun A particular kind of wind instrument, originally from Australia, which produces very low-pitched sounds.

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Examples

  • Tom has been playing music most of his life and the didjeridu for the past 12 years.

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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

  • 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

  • As it turned out, the didjeridu sounded completely organic, and the entire piece was indescribably beautiful.

    Archive 2006-12-01 sfmike 2006

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • This is immersive stuff, ranging from vast expanses of sound to something closer in timbre to a digital didjeridu.

    Disquiet » Worth Getting Lost In 2000

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