{"id":31697,"date":"2018-03-26T08:37:27","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T13:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/?p=31697"},"modified":"2018-03-26T08:37:27","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T13:37:27","slug":"bemidji-pioneer-digging-the-didgeridoo-an-ancient-drone-could-be-heard-friday-at-bangsberg-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/2018\/03\/26\/bemidji-pioneer-digging-the-didgeridoo-an-ancient-drone-could-be-heard-friday-at-bangsberg-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Bemidji Pioneer: Digging the Didgeridoo!: An ancient drone could be heard Friday at Bangsberg Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It was easy to find Janice Haworth’s World Music class on Friday morning.<\/p>\n

The hum of more than 40 student-made didgeridoos — the centuries-old indigenous Australian wind instrument — filled the music professor’s classroom at 91心頭利 and spilled out into Bangsberg Hall.<\/p>\n

Haworth’s students made their didgeridoos out of PVC pipe that they sanded and painted to look like traditional wooden ones. They have no internal mechanisms — the students buzzed their lips against one end of their didgeridoo to produce the instrument’s unmistakable droning sound, punctuated with dingo-like yawps or shifting “e-o-e-o” warbles.<\/p>\n

“It’s like a trumpet with no valves,” Haworth said. She brought in a saxophone teacher to help students learn their didgeridoos, which they put together for a broader lesson on the music of the Eastern Hemisphere. Fall semester students made Peruvian pan pipes as they studied Western Hemisphere music.<\/p>\n

“This is the first instrument I’ve ever been able to play,” Trevor Poxleitner, a freshman business major at BSU, said with a laugh.<\/p>\n

The most participants in a didgeridoo ensemble is 238, according to the Guiness Book of World Records — Haworth joked that her ensemble was only about 200 people short of that mark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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