Didgeridoo Playing – Health Risks?
Great for sleep apnoea. asthma, but may cause cancer?
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Double Didgeridoo – Quadruple Didge?
Playing the double didge reveals it’s interesting properties. It’s not just two didges in one, it’s four! Playing one side with the other open or covered produces different keys! Here’s how it goes:
Playing long end (short end open): B flat (trumpet A flat)
Playing long end (short end covered): D flat (trumpet G)
Playing short end (long end open): C (trumpet E)
Playing short end (long end covered): D flat (trumpet G)
Playing either side with the other one covered produces the same keys. Modulating the open end from open to closed with your hand, you can produce unique rhythms. This is truly a unique instrument!
This will be the first didgeridoo that I am offering up for sale.
Didgeridoo Forum
I created a new forum for Didge players and crafters in response to the lack of an easy to use, hassle free forum.
Disclaimer: Authenticity of the Didgeridoo
Out of respect for the origins of the Didgeridoo (Yidaki), and the aboriginal peoples, I want to make known that the Didgeridoos I make should in no way be considered authentic, aboriginal instruments. My didges are my own take on a historic and sacred instrument, the Yidaki. My intention is to enhance my own culture through the interpretive use of the didgeridoo, not to supplant or capitalize on the Yidaki, or the unique songs that are part of the culture of the aboriginal people of Australia.
I am inspired by the Yidaki, and it’s haunting sounds, and I wish only to promote the growth of a uniquely American culture of the Didgeridoo in it’s many forms and styles.
In the future, I may sell some of the didgeridoos I create. Please do not purchase from me or any other non-aboriginal crafters instead of buying the original from the source. I have provided links on this blog to promote the sales of the aboriginal people over my own.
Do buy from me or other non-aboriginal crafters if the uniqueness of our styles of crafting is what you are looking for. In this way we can hope to respect the origins of the instrument and preserve the aboriginal culture that surrounds it.
I am going to remove my posts on ‘how to’ create a didgeridoo out of respect for the aboriginal peoples.
Thank you.
John Burnett
PS
Thanks to Ben Hicks for raising my awareness of these issues. Ben will be re-launching his site very soon!
How to craft your own didgeridoo
I’d like to briefly explain the method I have learned for didge crafting. If you have access to termite-hollowed trees then you have a much easier way of making a didgeridoo than this!
Before considering making and selling didgeridoos, consider this link:
Cherry didgeridoo gourd bell
Cherry didgeridoo gourd bell, originally uploaded by stuckpixel.
This is a cherry didge I made with a gourd bell.
Oak didgeridoo side view
Oak didgeridoo side view, originally uploaded by stuckpixel.
This is an oak didge I just finished making.
John Burnett 