David Munrow plays the Dijeridoo 

😂😂😂

wtf are you talking about it was very bad

Yeah, this guy rocks, Robert Culbertson. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--hdSFg7ebBU.html&ab_channel=RobertCulbertson

Interesting window on how little people in the UK knew about the instrument back then, though.

hilariously bad it's beautiful

I agree Steve. What he says betrays his ignorance on the matter. As you say, the sophisticated songs and sounds and techniques required to play such an instrument, as players across the North of Australia do, require great skill and deep cultural knowledge. Like traditional music everywhere, it's complex, there are thousands upon thousands of songs and styles. Saddened to hear that he died not long after this aired.

Yeah, this for instance is a much better omage to digeridoo, Robert Culbertson. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rnwiXrx-nZE.html&ab_channel=RobertCulbertson

Are you sure they didn't laugh at the look of Munrow? (he DOES look hilarious). These people voluntarily attended a concert series meant to educate common people about the traditional musical culture of all kinds of diverse peoples (and Munrow MEANT it just like that, he was genuinely interested), back in a time when that was BY FAR not the norm (Australia abolished the last laws that specifically discriminated aboriginal people one year before that recording). I find it rather sad if these people, whom I'd judge rather culturally open minded for their time, get scorned at for laughing at the sight of a supposedly stiff englishman in a suit, performing a stile of folk music that must have been utterly unknown and alien to them back in 1976.

@@b.g.9257 You know what, you're totally right I don't know the context at why they might be laughing. on inflection and as you so eloquently put it a "stiff Englishman in a suit, performing..." might elicit a chuckle out of me if I saw it first hand.

Oh, you're welcome :-D I am totally pro equality and con discrimination, but I rather feel that we (including me, I'm admittedly full to the brim with all kinds of harmful stereotypes from when I grew up - but I am improving) still need some more finetuning on our reflexes about what is discriminating and what's not :-)

@@b.g.9257 well you are a certified legend in my book, you have a wonderful weekend ☺

You can appeciate aboriginal culture but there's no denying that the dgeridoo sounds hilarious to western ears.

He actually shot himself shortly after this series aired, no joke.

@@danielthompson6207 , according this from Wikipedia "In 1976, Munrow hanged himself while in a state of depression", he did not "actually shot himself"......unless perhaps he did both, more or less at once......

​@@danielthompson6207Not shot, he hanged himself.