Didgeridoo - AUSTRALIAN INSTRUMENT STILL LIVE IN THE WORLD / pro_photography / culture / music

There is a photo I took in the center of city Paris, France, listening to girl playing this appealing Australian instrument - didgeridoo. Hope you'll like this photo.

The didgeridoo (didjeridu) is a wind instrument developed by Indigenous Australians of northern Australia approximately within the last 1,500 years and still in widespread use today both in Australia and around the world. It is sometimes described as a natural wooden trumpet or "drone pipe". Musicologists classify it as a brass aerophone.

A length of modern didgeridoo is usually from 1 to 3 m. The didgeridoo is played with continuously vibrating lips to produce the drone while using a special breathing technique called circular breathing. This requires breathing in through the nose whilst simultaneously expelling stored air out of the mouth using the tongue and cheeks.

Traditionally and originally, the didgeridoo was primarily played as an accompaniment to ceremonial dancing and singing. Nowadays it is common for didgeridoos to be played for solo or recreational purposes outside of ceremonial gatherings.

In the past only men could play the didgeridoo and sing during ceremonial occasions. Now, you can see both men and women playing this instrument. Mostly, women are playing this like sort of hobby, while men are playing this in more professional way.

In popular music genres you can hear musicians playing didgeridoo: in experimental and avant-garde music, also in some musical groups including metal and ethnic music, then rock style, and in modern jazz performances, too.

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