Fake Didgeridoos Anger Aborigines Who Consider Instrument Sacred
By LEILA ABBOUD Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
FREELAND, Md. -- For thousands of years, Australian aborigines have painstakingly harvested the hollow branches of eucalyptus trees to make didgeridoos, their sacred musical instrument.
Aborigines walk through the bush in northern Australia, tapping on trunks to find those that termites have hollowed to just the right thickness, giving what is said to be the world's oldest wind instrument a sound quality somewhere between a foghorn and a trumpeting elephant. [Wall Street Journal]
