Definition of didgeridoo
: a large bamboo or wooden trumpet of the Australian aborigines
variants:
or less commonly
didjeridoo
Updated on: 14 Apr 2018
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Alex Suarez, the 2017 Ig Nobel Peace Prize winner, took the stage in his traditional performance robe and unleashed his custom didgeridoo on an unexpecting audience.
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His didgeridoo/apnea quest continues today, as Suarez notes that 50 percent of people snore and roughly 10 percent of that population could suffer apnea.
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Practicing the didgeridoo may strengthen the muscles of people’s airways, the scientists say, making them less likely to collapse during sleep and helping snorers—and their partners—rest easy.
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Peter Evans plays the trumpet like a homing device, a percussion instrument, a didgeridoo, or distant bird call.
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In a paper published in 2005 in The BMJ, Swiss researchers showed that regularly playing the didgeridoo, an Australian aboriginal wind instrument, reduced sleep apnea, which leads to snoring, broken sleep, and daytime exhaustion.
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Bryant Smith as a didgeridoo-playing cowboy prophet Funk trombonist Bryant Smith, creator of iO's Electrodide, has a new project called Ayahuasca Baby.
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Onstage, a man in a furry cloak blew something that looked like an elephant trunk and sounded like a didgeridoo.
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With grinding guitars, samples, synths, woodwinds, percussion and a didgeridoo, Ilad’s sonic kitchen sink is scattered and sure like Solo.
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Origin and Etymology of didgeridoo
probably of imitative origin
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