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BLOWN AWAY: Adam Shelley, Chloe O’Loughin and Jack McNulty get to grips with the didgeridoos.
Wizards of Aus blown away
19/10/2005
ROLF Harris eat your heart out! With not a jumping joey in sight and the nearest billabong at Miller's Brook a hundred yards away, the vibrating, stomach-rattling notes of a didgeridoo could be heard around St Luke's Primary School.
Children in Sarah Howarth's class have been doing a project on world weather and to add a bit of authenticity to their studies of how people cope with extremes of temperature on the other side of the world, they put on a performance for parents at morning assembly.
But they didn't just dig out some old plastic drainpipes to double as didgeridoos - these were the real things, hand-made and hand-painted by the indigenous people of Australia.
One was provided by a parent of one of the pupils, but the other was a result of some ingenuity by Miss Howarth.
She said: "I was trying to think how I could find a didgeridoo and I just happened to look at ebay. I couldn't believe when I got one for £5."
The children performed the Rolf classic, Sun Arise, to the accompaniment of the two didgeridoos and wooden percussion instruments.
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