The Guardian

‘We do not like the recorder’: why is the instrument loathed by Australian parents still taught in school?

Musicians typically play with wooden recorders and, while the plastic variety can produce a beautiful tone, novelty toy ones can’t Shrill? Screechy? This is not the recorder Hannah Coleman knows. The ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

New generation of violin makers uses technology to document historical Australian instruments

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. When you think of great violin makers you probably think of Italian luthiers like Stradivari or ...
SBS

India's musical connection to the Australian Aboriginal wind instrument, the didgeridoo

How a simple carpenter in the forests of the Himalayas in India spent his life loving the Australian Aboriginal instrument, the didgeridoo. Mukesh Dhiman, who was one of India's most famous didgeridoo ...
Sarasota Herald-Tribune

Australian instrument a big hit with middle school students

Jeremy Lembo demonstrated the didgeridoo, an aboriginal instrument from Australia made of hollowed-out bamboo and eucalyptus branches, to students at Port Charlotte Middle School. The students ...
The Guardian

First Australian piano comes home to UK after 231 years

Piano that sailed to Sydney with the first British settlers is being restored in Bath A piano that sailed to Australia with the first British settlers has been returned to home soil 231 years on, to ...