G'day Bob

That's interesting re the bamboo didges. The article I linked to also says "As there are many Aboriginal languages in Australia, so there are numerous Aboriginal words for this musical instrument. Some examples are: bambi, bombo, illpera and yidali. "

Bambi and bombo could possibly relate to bamboo.

Here's some more info about the history of the didgeridoo, and it's referred to as a trumpet. This site says that in 1925, "the word didgeridoo came into being, attributed to Herbert Basedow". In 1926, Anthropologist W. Lloyd Warner commenced field research at Milingimbi, and later published "A Black Civilization: A Social Study of an Aboriginal Tribe", the first ethnographic study of an Australian Aboriginal tribe. Mention is made of the Iraki, a "trumpet about four feet long".

Herbert Basedow was an early anthropologist and environmentalist. It's said he coined the word, but without having access to more info about that, it's hard to know it it was just because he was the first white person to use it.

fredalina :-)