Wikipedia on didgeridoo

Was the didgeridoo a bit of Irish to the Aborigines? ... The linguistic origins of Australia's most iconic musical instrument, the didgeridoo, have been called into question with an academic claiming the name is of Irish derivation rather than from an Aboriginal dialect ...Flinders University PhD student Dymphna Lonergan suggests the term may have its roots in an old Irish and Scottish expression meaning black trumpeter or horn blower ... She found the first appearance of the word didgeridoo in Australian dictionaries occurred in 1919 in the Australian National Dictionary ... The word is not in any Aboriginal dialect and linguists have long suspected the word is imitative of the sound made by a didgeridoo. But Ms Lonergan said an experiment she conducted asking subjects to make the sound of the instrument yielded words full of vowels starting with the letter "b" or "m". No subjects made the sound didgeridoo. (read on)

Five Ancient Musical Instruments from Ireland ... Two Late Bronze Age Horns from Co. Antrim, 900-600 BC ... probably made a noise similar to a didgeridoo.