Definitions
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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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