Hi - I'm currently living in Austalia and heard that the indigenous
> Australian instrument the DIGEREEDOO is actually an Irish word
> that means a black person who plays (pipes, instruments ?) I take it that
> means that the DOO part of the work is dubh in Gaelic....can anyone think what
> the other bit /s are ?

I doubt it. The Irish term for a person with black skin is "duine gorm", fear dubh is a black haired man.

The name of the Didjeredoo comes from the Aboriginal Australian language(s). Nothing to do whatsoever with the Irish language.

Tomás

A university researcher in Australia (with Irish roots) came up with a theory that it came from the Irish words:

Dúdaire Dubh (a black piper)

A dúidín was a clay tobacco pipe.

Sounds a little flaky (and very disrespectful):
dúdaire [ainmfhocal firinscneach den cheathrú díochlaonadh]
duine scrogallach, scrogaire; crónánaí, duanaire; amadán.

But when I googled for didjeredoo, the aborigine names that came up were very different, so I suppose it's possible.

On the other hand, this article makes a plausible case for Dúdaire Dubh - I recant.