BEMIDJI, Minn.-It was easy to find Janice Haworth's World Music class on Friday morning. The hum of more than 40 student-made didgeridoos-the centuries-old indigenous Australian wind instrument-filled ...
Who is to say that a musical instrument is primitive? Who is to say that a musical instrument tells us nothing about psychology and the human experience? The Australian Didgeridoo is the most ancient ...
There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science ...
When Crystal Bowersox performed "Come Together" while accompanied by a didgeridoo on Tuesday's "American Idol," many people wondered about the instrument's origin. The didgeridoo is a long, Australian ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When Mike Kuimelis hung more than 40 didgeridoos on every wall throughout his Mantra Wines’ tasting room in Novato, he understood he’d be making a statement.
He says the quality of the world’s most ancient woodwind instrument comes from whatever landscape surrounds him at the time. “I cleared a bit of space on a frozen river in southern Ontario in Canada ...
Imagine an Aboriginal man walking in northern Australia thousands of years ago. He sees a eucalyptus tree, approaches it, bends towards one of its branches and knocks. He hears the thok-thok sound of ...