хрен его знает насчет музыкальных инструментов, но 150 лет назад некий Питт Риверс запускал в небо реплики египетских "бумерангов" из Британского музея. Он обнаружил, что если бросать против в ветра, то, при определенной сноровке, "бумеранг" становился возвращаемым:
Nos 167, 168 and 169 are fac-similes of an Egyptian boomerang in the British Museum ... In order to ascertain by experiment whether this was really a boomerang, I had these facsimiles made with great care from the original of different kinds of wood, and they have been found by experiment to fly like a boomerang, ranging about 100 paces, and returning to within a few feet of the thrower. This experiment settles the question of the use of boomerang by the Egyptians, which, owing to the ill-defined representations of them in Egyptian sculptures, was previously open to dispute. .
Немало поэкспериментировав, он пришел к выводу, что египетские, эфиопские и индусские "бумеранги" схожи с "боевым" бумерангом австралийцев:

I have there shown, by giving a description of all the different varieties of the boomerang used by the natives of Australia, that the Egyptian boomerang, the trombush of the blacks of Abyssinia, and that of the blacks of Hindustan, correspond only with one class of the Australian boomerang, viz., that used by them for war, and considered the most useful weapon they employ, and that this form differs from the returning boomerang, which I describe as "having a slight lateral twist by means by means of which it is caused to rise in the air, screwing itself up precisely in the same manner as a boy's flying top, which rises and springs upon the ceiling. This last kind of boomerang, I have contended, is merely a variety of the war boomerang, and is peculiar to the continent of Australia, and not found elsewhere, and that it is a development of the plain war boomerang, which latter is used by several of the black races bordering on the Indian Ocean as well as by the Australians.
Pitt Rivers and boomerang technology

После него, как приходится судить по фуллзеробукэндинтернетрисёрч, развития тема не получила и мейнстрим древнеегипетских бумерангов оказался в руках музыкантов