Digeridoo players use their vocal cord reverberations to manipulate the resonances produced by the wood
Kate Callas
The traits that make the best didgeridoos have now been identified, and it has also given us a better understanding of how people use their vocal chords to make sounds with the instruments.
Didgeridoos, used by Aboriginal peoples of northern Australia for at least 1500 years, are “the principal musical instrument of the world’s oldest continuous culture”, say John Smith and Joe Wolfe, both at the University of New South Wales in Australia.
Traditional didgeridoos…
