Didgeridoo Facts and Interesting Information
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DIDGERIDOO 
FACTS AND 
INTERESTING 
INFORMATION 
BACKGROUND 
• The didgeridoo was developed by Indigenous Australians sometime 
within the last 1,500 years.
• Fun fact, the word “didgeridoo” is actually a western invention from 
the early 20th century, inspired by the sound produced by the 
instrument.
• Aboriginal people used — and still use — a lot of different names for 
the didgeridoo, depending on their location in Australia.
• Traditionally only men played the didgeridoo during ceremonial rites, 
even though women have always played informally.
DIDGERIDOO FACTS: 
• The Didgeridoo is a wooden BRASS instrument thought to have 
originated in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia.
• Researchers have suggested it may be the world's oldest 
musical instrument, The oldest cave painting were dated 3000 
to 5000 years old. It can be over 40,000 years old.
• There is a little evidence of the didgeridoo being used as far 
south as the Alice Springs region of Australia, but traditionally 
never in the southern three quarters of the country.
• It has been suggested that the Didgeridoo was an adaptation of 
traded instruments from India and/or Asia, this is possibly why it 
was mainly used by coastal tribes of the far North of Australia.
• Traditional didgeridoos were made from eucalyptus tree trunks and 
limbs hollowed out, while still living, by termites, (a small insect like 
an ant but a relative of the cockroach) or from bamboo in the far 
north of Australia.
• Traditionally the termite hollowed Didgeridoo was cut to an average 
length of 130 to 160cm and cleaned out with a stick or sapling.
• Today didgeridoos are made from a large variety of materials 
such as Glass, Leather, Hemp Fibre, Ceramic, Plastic, Fibreglass, 
Carbon Fibre, solid timbers carved out, logs drilled out, 
dried/hollowed Agave cactus stems, Aluminium and other 
metals and just about any material which can be formed into a 
hollow tube!
• The didgeridoo was traditionally used as an accompaniment 
along with chants, singers with Bilma (Tapping sticks) and 
dancers, often in ceremonies.
• Today the didgeridoo is heard in almost every style of music, rock, jazz, 
blues, pop, hip hop, electronic, techno, funk, punk, rap etc. There are 
truly no limits to the use of this awesome instrument.
• In a few aboriginal groups in certain ceremonies men only played the 
didgeridoo, but in many groups, outside of ceremony, men, women and 
children played it.
• The word didgeridoo can be spelt many different ways, none of which 
are Aboriginal names for the instrument. The word "didgeridoo" was a 
western word given to the instrument around 100 years ago. For more 
info see
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