| Name and Country |
When did you first hear about the didgeridoo? |
Please share your experience of first hearing the didgeridoo |
| Anonymous |
2000 |
Beautiful low bass sound |
| Terrill from USA |
1997-1999 |
Mesmerizing |
| Anonymous |
1994-1996 |
Awesome!! Nothing in the world can make that unique sound.. Thanks to the termite. |
| John from Australia |
2012 |
Mind blowing! |
| Anonymous |
1991-1993 |
Different from anything else I ever heard. |
| Shannon Kenyon from USA |
1985-1990 |
The first time I heard the didgeridoo was(don't laugh) on the movie crocodile Dundee. The didgeridoo takes my spirit on a fantastic meditative journey. |
| Robert Froton from USA |
2010 |
Saw some didjes in a shop tried to play it but couldn't make a sound. Ordered a cheap one from Amazon made out of teak wood and taught my self to play and circular breath |
| Gabriele Stoppa from Italy |
1994-1996 |
I started playing drums in 1997 but I always was attracted by many musical instruments especially by the ethnic ones: I hear the Didgeridoo sound both live and in TV or films and I fell in love with it...!! |
| Anonymous |
1997-1999 |
I attended a music teachers' meeting in Austin Texas with Dr. Sue Snyder. She shared her stories and music from Australia with us. |
| Deborah from USA |
2011 |
Sounded crazy and very unique |
| Mike Stanley from USA |
1997-1999 |
I may or may not have been on LSD at some music festival and wondered upon some lad playing didge. Need I say more? |
| Anonymous |
1997-1999 |
I heard it on TV not sure what show I believe is was discovery |
| Anonymous from Australia |
1985-1990 |
I have heard them all my life I think they sound wonderful. I am a professional musician/artist and I have always found the didge fascinating. |
| Chas Holman from USA |
Before 1980 |
I wanted to add one to my musical tools. |
| Yuri Zhdanau from Belarus |
2007 |
First time I thought the Didgeridoo I was a professional musician I was playing the horn. Now I sold my instrument because I found the Didj. So you can imagine my feelings when I first heard the Didj. |
| Jon from USA |
1991-1993 |
To me it is characteristic of wide open spaces. Everything from the natural termite process through which they are made and the way they are played by letting the instrument and yourself work together perfectly symbolizes humans working in concert with nature. It just doesn't sound right when it is forced. That should be a lesson for all of us. |
| Terry from United Kingdom |
1985-1990 |
Unusual unbelievable beautiful sounds from a natural wooden tree branch. Haunting and Mystical. |
| Jamie from USA |
2005 |
I quickly became intrigued by it and soon there after became addicted to it. |
| Connie from USA |
1994-1996 |
I am a music lover. The sound of a didgeridoo is very unique. I love unique and different things. |
| Ray from Australia |
1991-1993 |
The first time I heard the didge played was at the mia mia gallery in Melbourne played by John tye. I was mesmerised by the sounds and wanted to learn to play the didgeridoo |
| Anonymous |
Before 1980 |
I was gobsmacked! Loved it. |
| Anonymous from USA |
1997-1999 |
Potsdam NY. A man who used the didge for therapy gave a presentation/lecture. |
| Anonymous from USA |
1980-1984 |
My daughter had heard this instrument in music class in school. She was quite impressed with it and had me look it up on YouTube.com so I could listen. I had heard of a didgeridoo (from the song "tie me kangaroo down sport." as a kid) but never knew what it was. It is a very |
| Jason Cook from USA |
1994-1996 |
I first heard it when I was younger at a fair where a man had them. I remember it very well because I have loved didjes ever since. |
| Anonymous |
1997-1999 |
I was in elementary school and we were learning about Australia plus crocodile Dundee was one of my favourite movies at the time. |
| Anonymous |
2006 |
I heard a didgeridoo first played in an Australian band by the name of Cooee Down Under. It was played by an Aboriginal man by the name of Waroo. It left me wanting to play my own and soon thereafter I bought my first one and have loved playing it ever since. |
| Shaun from United Kingdom |
Before 1980 |
Street musician in Oxford when I was playing guitar in a band. The sounds he made entranced me. |
| Anonymous |
1980-1984 |
Amazing beautiful deep other worldly sound |
| Daniel from Sweden |
1991-1993 |
Just love it |
| Tomasz from Poland |
2010 |
Wonderful amazing sound. Filling the mind. |
| Anonymous from USA |
Before 1980 |
I thought that I had to learn to play. It is so entrancing |
| Anonymous |
1994-1996 |
I was fascinated and bewildered of how to play it and never forgot how unique it was. |
| Oliver from Canada |
1985-1990 |
I was like a call of nature something that make me connect to the earth |
| Anonymous from Australia |
2012 |
It helped me connect to the spirit realm |
| Joel Dressel from USA |
1997-1999 |
In Olympia WA USA someone was playing one on the sidewalk. Ever since then I have had the desire to learn how to play one. |
| Robert from Canada |
2008 |
Has a very haunting resonance |
| William Main from Australia |
1997-1999 |
It was fantastic I never understood how to play but I loved it. |
| Anonymous from USA |
1997-1999 |
It touched a deep part of my soul bringing forth strong emotions. |
| Mark Sweeney from USA |
Before 1980 |
At a Coroboree with a whole group of Aboriginals |
| Steve McCarthy from Australia |
Before 1980 |
I was a very young infant as a child we would make a didge out of anything we found around the house and play it until our parents put a stop to the playing |
| Anonymous |
2006 |
Something extraordinarily relaxing. a deep sound takes me deep inside of myself |
| David Carmichael from USA |
Before 1980 |
Not the first but of the most moving was meeting a didge player while camping on the Hopi reservation in Arizona. Added to Native American flute rattle and drum made for a profoundly spiritual night on a high mesa in remote country with a deep history. |
| Anonymous from United Kingdom |
1985-1990 |
Rolf Harris on TV |
| Joshua from USA |
2003 |
I played one that my dad owned hanging in his brass instrument repair shop. |
| Luke Pena from USA |
2009 |
I am a clarinettist and when I was early in learning the clarinet I was told (as criticism) that my tone sounded like a didgeridoo. I had no idea what that meant. Then in college in a music history class we had a brief section about world music and the didgeridoo was presented complete with the professor attempting to play it. (He's a violinist but he did a decent job nonetheless.) |
| Colin from USA |
2002 |
My brother was given one of your didges for his 18th birthday and I've been in love with the low drawl ever since. There's something about the sound that takes me to its origin even though I have never been there. I learned to play on his and when he moved away I made one by torching a PVC pipe to give it curves and depth and have been using that for years. |
| Riccardo from Italy |
1994-1996 |
I thought it is an ancestral sound coming from the earth |
| June from USA |
2013 |
Researching ways to treat sleep apnoea as I am intolerant to CPAP. |
| Anonymous |
1994-1996 |
I was curious about the breathing and liked the sound... it was on TV |
| Anonymous from USA |
1997-1999 |
I first heard a didgeridoo in person in grade school when someone brought one in for a presentation. It was fascinating and beautiful to me. |
| Anonymous from USA |
2010 |
A deep feeling from within being connected to something greater than myself. A wonderful sound. |
| Larry from USA |
Before 1980 |
Loved the mystical ethereal sound. |
| Pamela Ruigh from USA |
Before 1980 |
The sound was haunting and deep. I felt the vibrations physically. |
| Ossie from Australia |
Before 1980 |
Calm and awe |
| Anonymous from USA |
1997-1999 |
It was very brief. Someone playing one in front of a costume shop. |
| Anonymous |
1991-1993 |
Strange but entrancing |
| Marcel from Spain |
2012 |
It's a peculiar relaxing sound |
| Karen from USA |
1997-1999 |
High school assembly with a bunch of random instruments. The didgeridoo was probably the oddest. |
| Steve Schofield from Australia |
1985-1990 |
Amazing. I heard it at an Aboriginal dance show near Cairns. I have never heard it played like that since. I wish I knew who it was! |
| Jeff from USA |
1985-1990 |
A local musician brought it to my school |
| David from Australia |
Before 1980 |
I went to Coffs Harbour on North Coast of NSW for a holiday with my uncle. He had Aboriginal blood and we went bush camping with his mob. I was about 8 or 9 years old and remember listening to the Didj and clap sticks with some dancing. I has such a good time with catching yabbies and eating wild bee honey that we'd go out collecting. It was like a treasure hunt. You didn't know what was going to be on the dinner table until everyone arrived back at camp around dusk. It was like one huge family feast at the days end. Seriously if you could do this today without the bother of trespassing and who owns what Australia would be a better place for everyone. We have all learned to be too greedy and for some it is compounded by selfishness. |
| Anonymous from USA |
2000 |
I honestly don't remember but I do remember that after first hearing it I immediately ran out and bought some PVC and beeswax to build my own! I'm now blowing a homemade bamboo didj but progressing to the point where I'm now looking to purchase a true eucalyptus. |
| Anonymous |
2007 |
I thought it had a really cool sound. |
| Anonymous from USA |
2013 |
I had heard them before but did not know what they were. My brother sent a video and I was struck at how beautiful it sounded. |
| Marcelo Roque from Brazil |
Before 1980 |
Senti como se eu fosse transportado para fora desse mundo. |
| Philippe from Switzerland |
1997-1999 |
Soothing |
| Carmen from USA |
1997-1999 |
I have always watched the travel channel. Discovery national geographic and wildlife shows so I have seen many on Australia. They often show history and cultural aspects of the countries that are being shown. |
| Carol from Australia |
Before 1980 |
As a child I thought it was the most unusual & mesmerising sound I had ever heard |
| Katie from USA |
1991-1993 |
It was actually on a television show when I was in high school. At that time in my life I wanted to travel the world and experience tribal living everywhere to experience the ways in which they're all unique and they're all different. It fascinates me... It still is a dream but I am now a mother of two children so we make homemade drums instead...:) |
| Anonymous from Netherlands |
1985-1990 |
It calms the soul releases your worries and lets you travel with the sound it brings forth. There is no other instrument like it in the world. |
| Anonymous |
Before 1980 |
Mesmerizing haunting deeply spiritual. |
| Adam from USA |
2005 |
I was at an experimental music concert and one of the performers had a 10-foot didge which he played while swirling around in a circle in the aisle. |
| Anonymous from Japan |
1997-1999 |
My first time hearing about didgeridoo was through some music literature. My passion for music have lead me to try to understand how to listen better to music and sound. As well it lead me to listen how different cultures have developed their music instruments... My first experience listening to didgeridoo was during a one week camping with a group of young people. This was a first contact with the instrument. Hearing and feeling this vibrations rhythms... were an unforgettable experience. Back at home I was looking for Australian music on the net and few month later I was buying didgeridoos CDs. |
| Anonymous |
1985-1990 |
It sucked me into a place I did not know. |
| Anonymous |
Before 1980 |
While holidaying in the north west as a child there was an exhibition in carnavon |
| Rick from USA |
2000 |
It resonated with a spiritual feeling deep within that made me want to participate and play |
| Anonymous |
1997-1999 |
Intriguing instrument that was always the first association of Australian desert. |
| Linda from USA |
1980-1984 |
Loved the sound! |
| Christopher from Australia |
Before 1980 |
The first time I heard a didgeridoo played was probably around 1973 when I was in Grade 2 aged 7 years old. The class listened to ABC radio for kids program where music sing-a-longs stories and poetry reading were broadcast. Upon hearing this strange instrument (with a dreamtime story) I was absolutely intrigued. I went home and asked my mother what it was. I couldn't even pronounce the word! My mum drew me a picture of it and said you blow through it with your mouth. She gave me a piece of plastic pipe and showed me in a fashion how to make a sound like a didj. Absolute joy! I'm unsure about what my neighbours thought! |
| Michael from USA |
Before 1980 |
I do not remember the specifics all I remember is the hypnotic sounds it would produce and I wanted one ever since. |
| Marc from Canada |
1997-1999 |
I though...hey I can do that! Because I played French Horn all my life. Then I was very humbled when I finally got a didj ... I put it down for a year or so then a good friend taught me to circular breath. It was hard..then it got easier. |
| Cora from USA |
Never |
I am just hearing about it and I am extremely curious. |
| Andrew Sliwkowski from USA |
2010 |
"Holy #hit this might really help me with my sleep apnoea and I can play music with my kids and have fun" |
| Carsten from United Kingdom |
2002 |
I found the sound to be very calming and balancing - healing really. It also felt like an ancient memory. |
| Cynthia Chadwick from USA |
Before 1980 |
I was 21 years old and moved to Santa Monica California right on the beach. They had didj players there. Love it....... |
| Djeeh Gaulin from Canada |
2010 |
The first time I met a very good friend of mine we connected so much with music and he came with this magnificent instrument from Australia a fantastic D key didj and he played it as genius. I autocratically fell in love and decided to built my own with wood essence from my land. I used maple. great sound but I was beginner now I wanna but myself and my playing to the next level. |
| Anonymous |
2012 |
The sound is very healing and meditative |
| Jan from Netherlands |
1997-1999 |
Op een paranormalebeurs in rijswijk. Ik was meteen zeer gefassineert van ghet geluid. |
| Anonymous |
2000 |
Entrancing |
| Anonymous from USA |
1994-1996 |
Heard on a concert on TV |
| Yann from France |
1994-1996 |
I was a child my father was listening to Dr.Didg albums which is jazz with didgeridoo and I was just exciting to hear this kind of sound surprised but enjoyed and when I was 17 I bought one and learn to play it which lead me to the beginning of meditation and self discovery. |
| Teresa from Canada |
2010 |
At a live concert....love it!!!!!! |
| Ondrea from USA |
2011 |
Soothing |
| Gonzalo Quiroz from Argentina |
2001 |
Magical sound and relaxing music |
| Rune from Denmark |
1985-1990 |
In my youth I met a young woman who played a bamboo didjeridu which was the very first time I even heard of the instrument. It was a very intense and inspiring experience but for some reason I waited almost 25 years before beginning to play the didj myself. |
| Art Loucks from USA |
Before 1980 |
First heard the didgeridoo in a documentary in the 80's and have been a fan ever since |
| Michael from USA |
1991-1993 |
I had heard it on TV shows and movies however got to hear it first hand in high school in the early 90's. I was hooked by its deep sound. |
| Steven from USA |
1980-1984 |
I really love the unique sound. |
| Anonymous from USA |
1994-1996 |
Awestruck. I wanted to play it right off. |
| Anonymous from USA |
2013 |
A friend of mine brought one back from a trip to Australia. |
