Didgeriedoo!

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Permalink Reply by Daniel Read on March 24, 2009 at 10:32pm

Didgeriedon't.

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Permalink Reply by Julia Chantrell on March 25, 2009 at 8:29am

Spoilsport - I was planning on asking for one for my birthday...

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Permalink Reply by Daniel Read on March 25, 2009 at 1:00pm

Well, might be better than the Northumbrian pipes you were threatening. Can you do circular breathing?

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Permalink Reply by Julia Chantrell on March 25, 2009 at 1:56pm

You mean like in one nostril nad out the other simultaneously? Only downhill with a following wind.

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Permalink Reply by Daniel Read on March 25, 2009 at 3:50pm

Due to a typo, that reads a lot ruder than you intended......

I understand that "circular breathing", by whatever means, is necessary for this instrument.

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Permalink Reply by David Bull on April 4, 2009 at 7:01pm

Julia,

Are you sure you want a Didgeriedoo, according to Australian aboriginal legend any woman who plays one will never have any more children.

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Permalink Reply by Julia Chantrell on April 4, 2009 at 7:58pm

No, I'm quite cool with that...

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Permalink Reply by David Bull on April 4, 2009 at 8:03pm

Yes we gave up at three!

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Permalink Reply by Mark Barlow on March 25, 2009 at 10:07am

I saw on one used by Matt Redman's band at Soul Survivor Watford.

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Permalink Reply by Andy Copsey on March 25, 2009 at 4:50pm

Yes - on Jesus be the centre. It was very effective - much to my surprise! Just the one song in a set - once - but it did really add to the worship.

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Permalink Reply by Tim Knox on March 25, 2009 at 11:43pm

Yup... My family and myself were in Australia a few years ago visiting relatives in Freemantle. My son was very taken with the didgeridoo shop in town and after a couple of lessons talk me into letting him buy a didgeriedoo. I made sure we spent a bit of time finding one that was in key, and the best one we could find was in E (other keys can be harder to play).

I was invited to do the worship at a friend's wedding and they wanted 'Be thou my vision' played. As it was in E I though it was a good idea to see how the didgeridoo fitted. It worked really well. My son really enjoyed it, the congregation though it was cool, muso friends who couldn't see him were intriguied by the 'synth' sound. Since then we have used it in worship for a medley of songs and 'spontaneous stuff' in E and it really does add a depth and texture, especially when not over played. So go get yer self a bit of hoover hose and get flappin those lips....

No seriously, when we were in Australia, the didgerido salesman, was going to sell us an adjustable hose (a bit like hoover pipe) which consisted of two hoses inside each other. This mean't that you could adjust the length of the pipe and therefore the key. You just have to make sure the joint is well sealed. Some folk use thick elastic band type seals for this. Alternatively you can buy some big bits of bamboo from B&Q and gradually cut it down until you get the key you want. You also have to cut or ram out the inside chamber segments of the bamboo, which is a bit tricky. All this is a bit time consuming, but if you have the patience, alot cheaper that buying a didgeridoo on ebay, only to find that when played the key appears to be somewhere between Eb and D#, and it is such a large bore that the only sound you get out of it sounds like you are killing a small animal inside.

Oh and that numb lip feeling that creeps its way up your nose, when you have played to long....

Wow, just realising how sad I am, rabbiting on about bamboo and B&Q. I'll be getting on to how cool my daughter playing melodian in 'Everything' by Tim hughes is, next.... well it was, but I'm not telling you what a melodian is, so there.

Cheers

Tim Knox (not Hughes)

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Permalink Reply by Julia Chantrell on March 26, 2009 at 9:32am

Tee hee

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