"Take me Back to Bendigo - Gold Rush to Federation & Beyond" - Triple CD produced by Peter Ellis.

CD2 - Track 4 Australian Bird call mimics on gum leaf, Aboriginal performed by Herb Patton

track 5 - Archival track - Aboriginal Gum Leaf Band, from 1935 film "The Squatter's Daughter"

CD3 - Track 7 - Londonderry air, performed by Herb Patton

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"Verandah Music - Roots of Australian Tradition", ed. by Graham Seal & Rob Willis (Freemantle, Curtin University Press, 2003, book & 2 CDs)

Wendy Eva (born 1952) - Gumleaf Musician, taught by her father, an old bushman who had learnt from Aboriginal players. She performs in the old Aboriginal & bush tradditions.

Virgil Reuters (born Malaysia 1939)- Gumleaf Virtuoso, taught by a classmate at school in Malaysia, new style performer who plays country, blues & jazz.

Leaf (gum or otherwise) playing is not confined to Australia. There are leaf musicians who make their music in Europe, South East Asia & the Pacific.

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my computer desk is not made for typing stuff from a coffee table size book, so I'll stop now, maybe more later

sandra