Overtone-absent didgeridoo F fundamental Kenbi / Mamiylim from Mandorah 1977 by ididjaustralia published on 2017-03-22T12:18:37Z Type: overtone-absent didgeridoo Key: F-F# fundamental Length: 111 cm Air chamber volume: 855 cm3 Mouthpiece diameter: 3.1 cm Distal end diameter: 6.5-7 cm Weight: 2.3 kg Region: Mandorah, north-west Northern Territory opposite Darwin on the western side of the harbour, NT, Australia Collection date: 1977 Description: In the local language where this article was collected, in the Darwin region, the didgeridoo is known as kenbi or mamiylim. This particular instrument was purchased at Mandorah after a corroboree performance in 1977. It is decorated with what appears to be water designs representing Belyuen waterhole. There are suggestions that the didgeridoo was first made and used in the NW region of the Northern Territory before it spread to other parts of Australia. The evidence for this is biogeographic with doyen of Australian ethnomusicology Alice M. Moyle proposing a model for the instrument’s history in her article The Australian didjeridu: a late musical intrusion: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249007065_The_Australian_didjeridu_A_late_musical_intrusion It is also likely that the very first didgeridoos were of the overtone-absent type as this superb kenbi/mamiylim specimen is. Genre Didgeridoo