Laburnum musical instruments. In addition to such wind instruments as recorders and flutes, it was a popular wood for Great Highland Bagpipes before taste turned to imported dense tropical hardwoods such as "Brya ebenus" (cocus wood), ebony, and "Dalbergia melanoxylon" (African monkeywood). The heart-wood of a laburnum may be used as a substitute for ebony or rosewood. It is very hard and a dark chocolate brown, with a butter-yellow sapwood. "Laburnum" species and hybrids are cultivated as ornamental trees for gardens and parks. They are also trained as espaliers on pergolas, for ceilings of pendant flowers in season. In its natural
Aunty Jack Introduces Colour Bond), Thin Arthur (Rory O'Donoghue), and Kid Eager (Garry McDonald) are swallowed into the world of colour television, as colour wipes from the bottom of the screen, converting the ABC into colour television. The characters are shown attempting to resist the arrival of colour, with Aunty Jack fighting the process with "colour remover" in what ultimately becomes a futile process. The special was started at three minutes to midnight, so that the episode would swipe to colour at midnight, beating all other Australian commercial television stations, which respectively changed to colour television on the 1 March 1975, although many sources