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== Boomerang clapsticks== |
== Boomerang clapsticks== |
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Boomerang clapsticks are similar to regular clapsticks but they can be shaken for a rattling sound and be clapped together. |
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== Technique== |
== Technique== |
Revision as of 03:14, 25 March 2015
Clapsticks or clappers are a type of drumstick, percussion mallet or claves that are used to serve the purpose of maintaining rhythm with Aboriginal voice chants. Unlike drumsticks, which are generally used to strike a drum, clapsticks are intended for striking one stick on another.
As an ancestral instrument that may traditionally accompany the didgeridoo, it is sometimes referred to as musicstick or just Stick. In the language of the Yolngu Aborigines of Northeast Arnhem Land, Australia these clapsticks are called bimli.
Boomerang clapsticks
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Technique
The usual technique employed when using clapsticks is to clap the sticks together to create a rhythm that goes along with the song. Like the sticks you use in class at primary school.