clap stick

Clapping sticks are probably the more ubiquitous musical instrument, especially because they help maintain rhythm.

Equipment utilized by competitors in this class may include sighted guides, guide rails, beeping balls and clap sticks.

All of the proposals - clapping sticks, clanging cymbals, discharging firearms - were deemed ineffectual or unacceptable.

Guboo played the guitar, so very different from the traditional instruments that Guboo played in his later years of the clapping sticks and didgeridoo.

There were duck calls and clap sticks, tattoos and top hats, even one sign that read "Canada Rocks," the "o" shaped like a curling stone.

Indigenous Australians use clapping sticks alongside the didgeridoo, and claves are an integral part of South American Music.

Amid the sound of gongs, drums and clap sticks, the 34-year-old churchwoman was joined onstage by young Korean dancers wearing white like herself and two Australian aborigines in loincloths and body paint.

About 1km from the Cooinda resort (an easy 15 minutes walk), the Warradjan Aboriginal Cultural Centre depicts creation stories and has an excellent permanent exhibition that includes clap sticks, sugar-bag holders and rock-art samples.

The funeral was a Catholic service said by the Bishop of Darwin, Eugene Hurley, but hundreds of Aboriginal mourners also paid their respects through traditional "sorry business", with faces painted, clapping sticks, and wailing throughout the ceremony.