Clapsticks: Australian musical instrument
The clapsticks which can as well be referred to as clappers are a kind of drumstick, percussion mallet or claves that serves the purpose o...
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The clapsticks which can
as well be referred to as clappers are a kind of drumstick, percussion mallet
or claves that serves the purpose of maintaining the rhythm with Aboriginal
voice chants. The clapsticks are designed for striking one another unlike the
drumsticks which are designed to strike a drum.
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In the language of the
Yolngu Aborigines of Northern Arnhern Land in Australia, these sticks are
called bimli and as an ancestral musical instrument, it may accompany the
didgeridoo and sometimes called sticks or just musicstick.