How is a didgeridoo made? The didgeridoo is mostly made by nature. People would walk through the bush knocking on tree trunks with a stick until they found one that had been hollowed out by termites. Ceremony would be performed as the ancestral spirit in the tree was asked permission to give up the didgeridoo.

How are traditional didgeridoos made?

5. Traditionally didgeridoos were made from eucalyptus tree trunks and limbs hollowed out, while still living, by termites, (a small insect like an ant but a relative of the cockroach) or from bamboo in the far north of Australia.

Where do didgeridoos come from?

The didgeridoo was developed by Aboriginal peoples of northern Australia at least 1,500 years ago, and is now in use around the world, though still most strongly associated with Indigenous Australian music.