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The bullroarer, rhombus, or turndun, is an ancient ritual musical instrument and a device historically used for communicating over great distances. [1]

61 relations: Aerophone, Ambient music, Australian Aboriginal artifacts, Ballydowse, Bidhawal, Birpai, Breaking the Ethers, Bullroarer (disambiguation), Bundjalung people, Cattle, Corroboree (ballet), Daramulum, Dark ambient, Diesel and Dust, Dionysian Mysteries, Dirawong, Exocarpos cupressiformis, Folk instrument, Gateway (comics), Hornbostel–Sachs, Indigenous music of North America, Janie's Got a Gun, Juan dela Cruz (TV series), Kalervo Palsa, Karora, King Crimson, List of aerophones by Hornbostel–Sachs number, List of Caribbean aerophones, List of English words of Australian Aboriginal origin, List of Marvel Comics characters: T, List of musical instruments, Mana, Midnight Oil, Murrinh-Patha, Music of Greenland, Musical instrument, Musical instrument classification, Nangiomeri, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (film), Navajo music, New Mexico music, Ngugi people, Night of the Twisters, Noise in music, Norweilemil, Number Pieces, Prehistoric music, Reed (mouthpiece), Rhoptron, Rituals (John Zorn album), ..., Shell gorget, The Australian Worker, The Dreaming (album), The Last Continent, Timeline of historic inventions, Tjurunga, Weraerai, Whirligig, Whirly tube, Wik-Mungkan people, Winalagalis. Expand index (11 more) »

Aerophone

An aerophone is any musical instrument that produces sound primarily by causing a body of air to vibrate, without the use of strings or membranes, and without the vibration of the instrument itself adding considerably to the sound.

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Ambient music

Ambient music is a genre of music that puts an emphasis on tone and atmosphere over traditional musical structure or rhythm.

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Australian Aboriginal artifacts

Australian Aboriginal artifacts consist the boomerangs, spears, shields, dillybags and other things Aboriginals had to carry around.

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Ballydowse

Ballydowse was a Celtic punk rock band from Chicago, Illinois with a rare mix of anarchist and religious ideas infused into their music.

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Bidhawal

The Bidhawal (also known as Bidawal and Bidwell) were an Australian Aboriginal tribe of Gippsland, Victoria.

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Birpai

The Birpai are an indigenous Australian people of New South Wales.

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Breaking the Ethers

Breaking the Ethers is the debut album from collaborative group Tuatara.

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Bullroarer (disambiguation)

A bullroarer is a ritual sound instrument and an ancient communication device used for communicating over greatly extended distances.

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Bundjalung people

The Bundjalung people (also known as Bunjalung, Badjalang and Bandjalang) are Aboriginal Australians who are the original custodians of northern coastal areas of New South Wales (Australia), located approximately northeast of Sydney, an area that includes the Bundjalung National Park and Mount Warning, known to the Bundjalung people as Wollumbin ("fighting chief of the mountains").

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Cattle

Cattle—colloquially cows—are the most common type of large domesticated ungulates.

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Corroboree (ballet)

Corroboree is a ballet written by Australian composer John Antill in the early 1940s.

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Daramulum

In several of the Aboriginal cultures of south-east Australia such as Wiradyuri, Kamilaroi, Eora, Darkinjung, and Guringai, Daramulum (“one legged”) is a son of Baiame and his emu-wife Birrahgnooloo.

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Dark ambient

Dark ambient (especially in the 1980s referred to as ambient industrial) is a genre of post-industrial musicReed, Alexander: Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music, Oxford University Press, 2013,, p. 190 that features an ominous, dark droning and often gloomy, monumental or catacombal atmosphere, partially with discordant overtones.

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Diesel and Dust

Diesel and Dust is the sixth studio album by Australian rock band Midnight Oil, released in August 1987 by SPRINT Music label under Columbia Records.

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Dionysian Mysteries

The Dionysian Mysteries were a ritual of ancient Greece and Rome which sometimes used intoxicants and other trance-inducing techniques (like dance and music) to remove inhibitions and social constraints, liberating the individual to return to a natural state.

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Dirawong

In Australian Aboriginal mythology of the Bundjalung Nation, the Dirawong, an unseen spiritual creature also known as the goanna spirit, is one of the Creator Beings of the Bundjalung Nation, that 1) Protects 2) Guards, 3) Battled the Rainbow Snake, and 4) Helps the people with; 'Aboriginal astronomy, body designs, bullroarers, bush cosmetics, bush foods, bush medicines, cave paintings and designs cut into trees, ceremonial headgear, ceremonial poles, cultural lore, dances, dreaming's, games, geographical locations, how people are required to behave in their communities, initiations, laws of community, paintings, rock art, rock engravings, rules for social behaviour, sacred chants, sacred earth mounds, sacred ground paintings, songlines, songs, stone artifacts, stone objects, stories, structures of society, symbols, technologies, the ceremonies performed in order to ensure continuity of life and land, values, wooden articles, wooden sacred objects, and also the beliefs, values, rules and practices concerning the peoples relationship to the land and water of Widje tribal territory within Bundjalung country. The Dirawong is known as a benevolent protector of its people (in the Bundjalung Nation) from the Rainbow Snake (also known as the 'Snake' or 'Rainbow Serpent'). The Dirawong (goanna) is also associated with rain and there is a rain cave on Goanna Headland where the Elders of the Bundjalung Nation people went in the old days to organise ceremonies for rain.

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Exocarpos cupressiformis

Exocarpos cupressiformis, with common names that include native cherry, cherry ballart, and cypress cherry, belongs to the sandalwood family of plants.

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Folk instrument

A folk instrument is a musical instrument that developed among common people and usually does not have a known inventor.

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Gateway (comics)

Gateway is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

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Hornbostel–Sachs

Hornbostel–Sachs or Sachs–Hornbostel is a system of musical instrument classification devised by Erich Moritz von Hornbostel and Curt Sachs, and first published in the Zeitschrift für Ethnologie in 1914.

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Indigenous music of North America

Indigenous music of North America, which includes American Indian music or Native American music, is the music that is used, created or performed by Indigenous peoples of North America, including Native Americans in the United States and Aboriginal peoples in Canada, Indigenous peoples of Mexico, and other North American countries—especially traditional tribal music, such as Pueblo music and Inuit music.

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Janie's Got a Gun

"Janie's Got a Gun" is a song performed by American hard rock band Aerosmith and written by Steven Tyler and Tom Hamilton.

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Juan dela Cruz (TV series)

Juan dela Cruz is a 2013 Philippine superhero television series created by Rondel P. Lindayag and Dindo Perez, developed by Julie Anne R. Benitez, Lino S. Cayetano, Ethel M. Espiritu, Dindo Perez, and Shugo Praico, and directed by Malu L. Sevilla, Avel E. Sunpongco, Francis E. Pasion, Jojo A. Saguin, and Darnel Joy R. Villaflor.

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Kalervo Palsa

Huugo Kalervo Palsa (March 12, 1947 – October 3, 1987), or Kalle, was a Finnish artist in a style that has been described as fantastic realism.

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Karora

In the mythology of the Aboriginal people of northern Australia (specifically the Arrernte people), Karora is a bandicoot ancestral deity.

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King Crimson

King Crimson are an English progressive rock band formed in London in 1968.

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List of aerophones by Hornbostel–Sachs number

The Hornbostel–Sachs system of musical instrument classification groups all instruments in which sound is produced through vibrating air.

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List of Caribbean aerophones

List of aerophones used in Caribbean music, including the islands of the Caribbean Sea, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Belize, and Bermuda.

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List of English words of Australian Aboriginal origin

These words of Australian Aboriginal origin include some that are used frequently within Australian-English, such as kangaroo and boomerang.

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List of Marvel Comics characters: T

T-Ray is a villain in the Marvel Comics Universe.

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List of musical instruments

Other.

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Mana

Mana, in Austronesian languages, means "power", "effectiveness", and "prestige".

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Midnight Oil

Midnight Oil (known informally as "The Oils") are an Australian rock band composed of Peter Garrett (vocals, harmonica), Rob Hirst (drums), Jim Moginie (guitar, keyboard), Martin Rotsey (guitar) and Bones Hillman (bass guitar).

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Murrinh-Patha

The Murrinh-Patha, or Murinbata, are an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory.

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Music of Greenland

The music of Greenland is a mixture of two primary strands, Inuit and Danish, mixed with influences from the United States and United Kingdom.

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Musical instrument

A musical instrument is an instrument created or adapted to make musical sounds.

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Musical instrument classification

Throughout history, various methods of musical instrument classification have been used.

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Nangiomeri

The Nangiomeri, or Nanggumiri, were an indigenous Australian people who lived in the area of the Daly River in the Northern Territory.

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Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (film)

is a 1984 Japanese animated epic science fantasy adventure film adapted and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, based on his 1982 manga of the same name.

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Navajo music

Navajo music is music made by Navajos, mostly hailing from the Four Corners region of the Southwestern United States and the territory of the Navajo Nation.

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New Mexico music

New Mexico music (Música Nuevo Méxicana) is a genre of music that originated in the US State of New Mexico, it derives from the Puebloan music in the 13th century, and with the folk music of Hispanos during the 16th to 19th centuries in Santa Fe de Nuevo México.

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Ngugi people

The Ngugi were an indigenous Australian people and the traditional inhabitants of Moreton Island.

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Night of the Twisters

Night of the Twisters is a young adult realistic fiction novel by Ivy Ruckman that was released in 1984 by publisher Harper & Row (now HarperCollins).

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Noise in music

In music, noise is variously described as unpitched, indeterminate, uncontrolled, loud, unmusical, or unwanted sound.

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Norweilemil

The Norweilemil were an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory.

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Number Pieces

The term Number Pieces refers to a body of late compositions (40, or 41 if Seventeen was actually composed) by John Cage.

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Prehistoric music

Prehistoric music (previously primitive music) is a term in the history of music for all music produced in preliterate cultures (prehistory), beginning somewhere in very late geological history.

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Reed (mouthpiece)

A reed is a thin strip of material which vibrates to produce a sound on a musical instrument.

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Rhoptron

A rhoptron (ρόπτρον, plural: rhoptra) was a special buzzing drum used in Ancient Greece associated with the Corybantes.

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Rituals (John Zorn album)

Rituals is an album of contemporary classical music by American avant-garde composer John Zorn.

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Shell gorget

Shell gorgets are a Native American art form of polished, carved shell pendants worn around the neck.

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The Australian Worker

The Australian Worker is a newspaper produced in Sydney, New South Wales for the Australian Workers' Union.

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The Dreaming (album)

The Dreaming is the fourth studio album by the English singer Kate Bush, released in 1982 via EMI Records.

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The Last Continent

The Last Continent is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, the twenty-second book in his Discworld series.

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Timeline of historic inventions

The timeline of historic inventions is a chronological list of particularly important or significant technological inventions and the people who created the inventions.

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Tjurunga

A Tjurunga or as it is sometimes spelled, Churinga, is an object considered to be of religious significance by Central Australian indigenous people of the Arrernte (Aranda, Arunta) groups.

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Weraerai

The Weraerai were an indigenous Australian people of the state of New South Wales.

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Whirligig

A whirligig is an object that spins or whirls, or has at least one part that spins or whirls.

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Whirly tube

The whirly tube, corrugaphone, or bloogle resonator, is a experimental musical instrument or toy which consists of a corrugated (ribbed) plastic tube or hose (hollow flexible cylinder), open at both ends and possibly wider at one end (bell), the thinner of which is rotated in a circle to play.

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Wik-Mungkan people

The Wik-Mungkan people were the largest branch of the Wik people, an Indigenous Australian group of tribes, speaking several different languages, who traditionally ranged over an extensive area of the western Cape York Peninsula in northern Queensland.

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Winalagalis

Winalagalis is a war god of the Kwakwaka'wakw native people of British Columbia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullroarer

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