Hey Tom,

Well, probably the old fa...I mean the revered giants of western music who have gone before us and created the names "drone" and "ostinato" would have found the didgeridoo to be too strange to be considered in "serious" music. They wouldn't have classified it as anything other than noise. Luckily for us, modern western music is open and accepting to sounds, new and old, from around the world.

It falls a bit "in the cracks." First, I'd check and see if the aborigines of Australia had a name for the role the didgeridoo played in their indigenous music. Just as the "clave" is the name for both the instrument and it's rhythmic place in Afro-Cuban music, that name would IMO take precedence.

If, without such info, I had to make a call, I'd say it was a "dronstinato."

Mike

You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way. -Johnny Cash

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-niteshift

Mike Dunbar Music