Name and Country |
What inspired you to learn the didj? |
Adam Diiulio from USA |
I think the first I ever heard one was actually on an episode of nickelodeon's The Wild Thornberries many years ago. I was fascinated by the sound but didn't really know anything about it or where to get one. I had always talked about didjes to my friends and how I wanted to learn. One day my friend came home from a trip to Oregon, USA with a gift for me. It was a didj he found at some random shop! I think it only took me about a week or so to get an initial drone down and not too long after that I was circular breathing. Which I later learned is a very short time span to learn how to play. |
Adam from USA |
I play the bagpipes, and have great interest in playing other culturally unique instruments |
Adam from USA |
Just hearing it in movies was enough to seek it out. |
Anonymous |
I had been amazed by the images and stories of Aborigines that had a very special place in my heart since I can remember and a fleeting spark when I saw a flyer at the Conservatory I was studying at at the time. |
Ales from Czech Republic |
Feeling over past few years, that didj is the right thing for me. |
Alex from USA |
My best friend convinced me to make and learn to play my own didgeridoo. I took his advice and we eventually played together on a frequent basis. |
Allan from USA |
My first exposure to the didgeridoo was by seeing David Hudson play with Yanni. After that I wanted to learn more, and that desire to learn more inspired me to want to learn. |
Álvaro Oliveira from Brazil |
The meditation |
Anonymous from Hungary |
Australia. When I travelled to that wonderful country I met a lot of experienced didgeridoo players and I myself wanted to take up a hobby that is unusual in my country. |
Andre from Brazil |
Jamiroquai's didgeridoo player (Wallis Buchanan). |
Andreas from Sweden |
I'm fascinated with the sound and wanted to be able to reproduce them myself |
Angus from Australia |
David Hudson - Woolunda Meditative/Trance Inducing Improvisational Aspects |
Arpad Toth from Hungary |
Once I saw it on tv |
Art Ibell from USA |
Sounds it makes |
Anonymous |
Interest in Aboriginal folk lore, history and art. I heard a didge when I was young and fell in love with the sound. |
Barry Williams from USA |
I like the different sounds |
Anonymous from United Kingdom |
A great interest in the aboriginal culture and Australia since being a kid |
Ben from United Kingdom |
The sound |
Bent Lonrusten from Norway |
My australian mate |
Bert from Netherlands |
A friend's playing |
Anonymous |
Listening to tradition playing. |
Anonymous |
I'm fascinated by the music I've heard. |
Anonymous from USA |
Sound quality |
Borja from Spain |
I love traditional music. I am a bagpiper too, and I always liked how a didj sound |
Brad Lackey from USA |
Fascinated by the sound and the cultural birth of the instrument. |
Bruce from United Kingdom |
Something I have wanted to do ever since I first heard the sound made by the Didgeridoo as a child. |
Anonymous |
I had the opportunity to teach in an indigenous community for a month and was fascinated with the members of the community playing. I love the variation in sound it can make. |
Carlo from Italy |
The meditation sound |
Cassie from USA |
Hearing it from a friend - a recording only, not the live music. |
Chad Champoux from USA |
When I was younger I did a school project on Australia and came across didj information and ever since I wanted to to try so then a few years later I got one off of ebay and then After doodling with it I got a book on how to play and have been hooked ever since. |
Chris Ruffner from USA |
I love the sound of the didj |
Christine from Canada |
Your web site |
Clement from France |
I play guitar sonce 3 years and I wanted to play a new instrument for my personal songs, so I discovered this didgeridoo and when I learned to play it it make me some good things not only for the music |
Connie from USA |
I heard didj music and just found it compelling. Then I met a guy from Australia playing one from PVC pipe and figured I could afford that and went at it full speed. |
Courtney from USA |
An impulsive purchase when I saw one at a local store. |
Craig from Canada |
My brother had one, and I just started to try and play it and fell in love with the instrument. |
Dale Duvall from USA |
The sound enticed me to play, then I bought a cheap malaysian knock off and was very dissatisfied at the quality, so I made a pvc didj and was much happier with that. Naturally, I had to have the real thing. |
Damien from Ireland |
A guy called Steve Cooney, used to play it with traditional Irish music. |
Dan from USA |
Health benefits. |
Dantez from Brazil |
My fascination by aboriginal people |
Dave from United Kingdom |
Travelling around Oz and mixing with the locals. |
David from USA |
Sterling Greene at a Native American Flute gathering and meeting Ash Dargan |
David Snyder from USA |
The wide array of sounds and rhythms are hypnotic. |
Anonymous |
I just felt the need to |
Dean from United Kingdom |
A documentary on aboriginal people and I have a fascination with aboriginals and australia. |
Dennis Haslam from Denmark |
An Australian friend who stayed on vacation by me a whole summer:-) |
Derek from Spain |
I've not learnt yet. |
Deric from Canada |
I like the way they sound, there different, not many people know about them; and my dad was un able to get a "tone" on our first didj so I thought I better try, and I've been playing the didj ever since then. |
Don from USA |
A sound healer from portsmouth, NH named joseph carringer |
Doug Bischoff from USA |
The band I joined needed me to pick up where another player left off. I taught myself... then fell in love with the instrument. |
Ed Huntley from USA |
Love the sounds and the internal feelings they produce |
Anonymous from Brazil |
David hudson |
Edward from USA |
Wicked Tinkers band |
Edward from USA |
Prophecy from a friend during a worship session. and after getting frustrated by not being able to circular breath I prayed to jesus to help me and the next breath was circular. from that point on I've been advancing rapidly and just got the toot! awesome |
Eleanor Hjemmet from USA |
It calls me. I first heard one played live in a Celtic-fusion band, Seven Nations, and was blown away. That didge was PVC pipe. Also, for several years I have been exploring healing with vibration, along the lines of Royal Raymond Rife's research, and have built an experimental frequency device that has had some remarkable results. I mainly want to use my didge for meditation and healing. |
Eric from USA |
Love the culture |
Eric from USA |
Healing, meditation and breathing. I find it very grounding and meditative to play. |
Erik Putnam from USA |
Hearing it! |
Et from USA |
I saw one in a store and thought I'd get it for my musical cousin as a surprise for his birthday. I liked the sound so much I was hooked. |
Anonymous |
When I used to live in Seattle, WA, 2 young guys played the didj at the Bumbershoot festival. I was entranced and fascinated and have had a love affair with the didj ever since. |
Anonymous |
First time I heard a didgeridoo, I knew I had to have one. |
Fred Ashplant from USA |
I don't know. It's just something that has always intrigued me. |
Gareth Lynch from USA |
I love it |
Anonymous |
Sleep apnea first and then it was my first didge, a plastic one that I found that playing made me feel calm and listening to music from others put me into a calm world apart from the rat race. |
Anonymous from Germany |
The sound and the deep bass. it was a feeling that I can not describe, it is very nice and gives me a feeling of enormous well being. |
Grady Karp from USA |
The sound was extremely compelling to me, and the technique seemed like something I could master. |
Graham from United Kingdom |
Interest in indigenous things. Interest in world musical instruments. |
Gregg Nardozza from USA |
I picked up a CD called Didjworks. The didj player is Simon 7 and after hearing him play, I had to learn myself. |
Guy François from Belgium |
No many place in it the tell about his. It's karma I think. Like an ooooold story between the nature and my sub_in_conscience. |
Gyan from USA |
Took workshop. |
Hamish from New Zealand |
A friend picked one up at a party and it just blew me away, I knew I had to learn it. |
Harmony from USA |
I had a dream of an Aboriginal ancestor playing the didgeridoo. His intention in playing the didgeridoo was healing, not just for me, but myself as a healer of others as well. In the beginning of my dream, I used intellect to address a woman hitting her child. I then realized I needed to stop lecturing her and to just deep listen. As we entered her home, the Aborigine sat on the woman's kitchen table playing the didgeridoo. He understood me to my core--my strengths and weaknesses. As he played, I understood to let go of my intellect and to flow with the innermost need of the woman. I lifted her on my back and proceeded to walk around the kitchen table in a counterclockwise direction. As I walked with her on my back, I went into a trance like state--connecting/synergizing with her inner vibrations--my inner vibrations healing hers. I was healing in the process as I gained awareness of how to heal. The sound of the didgeridoo penetrated the depths of my inner core. I never saw a didgeridoo. I had heard the sound before from the show Survivor. Curious, I went on-line to do research on the didgeridoo. I have to admit, I remain deeply surprised to see that the didgeridoo is the same shape that the Aborigine was playing in my dream. Dreams are very powerful if we listen carefully. The didj is somehow connected to my healing and the healing of others. I also feel a deep calling to learn about Aboriginal People, their spirituality, and way of living from the past, present and future. I have faith that what is meant will unfold as it is meant to be. I will wait patiently as I listen to the messages given to me. |
Héctor Raúl from Argentina |
Actualmente toco quenas, moxeños, zampoñas, varios aerófonos andinos, y me gustaría incluir en este universo de instrumentos al didgeridoo... |
Herb Cohen from USA |
I Practice and teach meditation and run drumming circles. A didge would compliment these practices. |
Howard Williamson from USA |
My wife knew a male nurse who plays quite a lot in our area - we ran into him at a local bookstore and she asked him to show me his didge. We went outside under the entrance canopy and he gave us about a 15 minute introduction. I loved it. I have participated in the annual Seattle Folklife Festival watching and playing with a large group - probably at that time we could have set a world record for the greatest number of didges playing at the same time - had we had an official counter. I'd guess we had between 300 and 350 but this was about 10 years ago so I'm sure there have been larger groups since them. I have made ABS didges for several friends and we used to get together and play them on the large sunning lawn of a local club. |
Iain from United Kingdom |
Ever since I was young I have loved the sound - by chance, a school student introduced me to a player who got me started on plastic pipes. My in laws discovered retailer mentioned above, I bought my first real didge from them, had first lesson via a contact of the retailer, met other players, formed friendships, joined a club, discovered the huge internet community, went to didge festivals and so on - and how my life has changed!! |
Ian Hopper from USA |
Listening to Dr. Didg and Ash Dargan |
Ian from United Kingdom |
The sound of a didge |
Anonymous from USA |
Seeing and hearing it played when I visited AUS. |
Ivan from USA |
Learn new culture music |
Ivan Matamoros from Spain |
First time I eared one. I'm buddhist..I find pretty interesting that way of breath and that sound. |
Jacob from USA |
When I saw a documentary on the Aboriginal People |
Anonymous |
Xavier Rudd, and my yoga teacher had told me that it can also be quite good for sleep apnea and proper breathing techniques |
Anonymous |
Sound |
James Davis from Canada |
The ancient sound of the didge, the way I seem to connect with what sounds it produces |
Anonymous from USA |
The sound was spiritual,like the Tibetan Monks, Gregorian Chant, Shinto ritual music. |
Anonymous from United Kingdom |
The sound, I love the sound that only a didj can give you and the way it makes me feel |
Jan Vink from Netherlands |
The sound of te instrument |
Anonymous from USA |
Hearing the instrument being played by a friend inspired me to pursue it. |
Anonymous |
Rolf Harris on the TV as a kid - I thought he was amazing. I also have a general interest in music eg play piano also |
Jeff Wilson from USA |
I heard a guy playing it at a outdoor party in the wild lands outside of Fargo ND (USA) and ever sense I've been interested and w/ Xavier Rudd come into my world he has been my inspiration. |
Jeffrey Longeddy from USA |
I haven't learned it yet. What inspires me to want to learn are various shows on the aboriginal peoples. |
Anonymous |
Unfortunately the TV show Survivor and my children asking what that deep sound was! |
Jenna Luksetich from USA |
Very! |
Jeremy from USA |
Dr. Didg |
Jerome from France |
I simply like the sound of it and am very interested in music of any type. The didj has however something unique. It can only produce one tune (2 with the hoot) but you can do so much incredible things with it if you have only a didgeridoo, a mouth and some patience to learn!!! |
Anonymous |
My desire to complement meditation practice and use a natural instrument |
Anonymous from USA |
I like the sound |
John from USA |
Heard someone else playing and loved the sound and the history. |
John Griffiths from Australia |
Always liked the sound. |
John Mangold from Canada |
It always interested me - the sound. I thought I could learn circular breathing but am stymied so far. |
John from USA |
Listening to the albums that contain the didge |
Anonymous |
I wanted to play an instrument that no one else really plays and I heard an aboriginal play the didj I really liked the sound and feeling it produced. |
John Stuart Kirkpatrick from Bermuda |
Love the sound. Always thought that ONE DAY I will be a very good didge player...just got to keep at it! |
John from USA |
It is part of a lecture I give to sleep professionals and patients and general public would like to learn to play and use a didgeridoos in my lectures. I am also a Chiropractor and I am interested in the healing properties and would like more information about this aspect. |
Jon Griffin from Canada |
Because it was different, and as I stated above, intrigued by the harmonics... the paint designs are cool too. I'm a very spiritual person and I think of the didj as an earthy - primitive - soulful instrument |
Jonathan from USA |
Respect for other cultures and meditative purposes. |
Jonathan Zamora Ríos from Costa Rica |
Un grupo de música étnica de mi país llamado: Amoun Sulu, que utiliza el didge como uno de sus principales recursos. |
Jone from USA |
A dream. |
Jonny Monument from United Kingdom |
My girlfriend's brother plays. he got me into it. I used to be a trombonist, so I had the lip for it. The web and the didjshop site got me utterly hooked. |
Anonymous |
AUSTRALIA, we did the whole east coast, Ayers rock, Katatjuta national park and Kings canyon. I love it!!! |
Jussi from Finland |
My friend in Finland had a didgeridoo, which he played in an Eurovision song contest 1998 with a band. I thought it sounded great. Later I had a chance to live and work in Australia, but I never wanted to buy a didgeridoo without being involved in making it. So I waited until my Yolgnu wawa showed me how to make it. He also painted one for me. Since then I've kept finding and making didgeridoos by myself as a collection - not for sale. |
Anonymous |
My love for Australia. |
Kat from USA |
It's a cool instrument. I like using different world instruments in my choral concerts. |
Anonymous |
A friend who carried his everywhere with him and played for anyone who asked. |
Kathy from USA |
The sound has always brought about deep emotions |
Keith from USA |
A friend and I found them at a local shop, had a great instructor, and then the chant drew me in. |
Kenneth from USA |
I bought one in Cairns on a trip mainly for decoration and liked the feel and sound when I tried it. |
Anonymous from USA |
Developing Sleep Apnea as a secondary diagnosis to Narcolepsy. Didj playing (IMO, the CB) is supposed to help. Then I started actually enjoying playing. Now if I can get my toddler to quit trying to play horsie on my didj when I practice, I might be able to improve. |
Laura Jackson from USA |
Ash Dargan at February 2007 Native American Flute Festival in Maryland. |
Le Perkins from USA |
The first time I heard it I wanted to make that sound I don't remember when I heard it on the TV a long time ago. |
Lisa from USA |
With out ever trying a didge before, I felt I could play one. |
Anonymous |
I like all music and I've been fascinated by the didj |
Anonymous |
Listening. Trips to Australia |
Margaret from USA |
A friend made some from Australian lacewood. |
Anonymous |
Great sound, culture Interests. |
Mark from USA |
Sound of the instrument. |
Mark from USA |
I love the sound and I have always been drawn to it. |
Anonymous |
I saw it played in a TV and the voice just stuck in my head and I had to get my own and practice playing it. |
Anonymous from USA |
I travel the world a great deal and my wife and I try to add unique ethnic folk instruments to our growing collection. I played trombone, my sons play trumpet and tenor sax, and we enjoyed making the transition to playing the didj together as a family. The didj remains one of the most unique in terms of playing versatility, interest from listeners, and simple beauty and fun. My wife teaches high-school music and directs a professional city choir. She seeks every opportunity to use these instruments, especially the didj, in a wide range of traditional and modern choral and instrumental works. |
Marty from Australia |
I am a Conga player/ percussionist and the sounds and rhythms of the didj inspired me to get into it, find my own sound and incorporate it in my musical journey. Of course, now I barely touch anything but my didjes!! |
Marvin from USA |
The culture and the meditative feeling when playing |
Matt from Canada |
I heard a fellow playing one during a festival and thought it would be fun. Then the task of circle breathing came and it became more of a challenge. I bought a bamboo didge and began practicing. The bamboo does aright, but I wish I could afford a eucalyptus didj. |
Matthew from USA |
My father bought one from your site, and I thought the sound was amazing. I live by myself and don't have television or internet and I needed something to challenge myself. |
Anonymous from Australia |
When I got in touch with my Aboriginal side of the family. |
Megan Golden from USA |
When I first heard Xavier Rudd I knew that I would have to learn how to play the didj. |
Melanie from USA |
I met a guy named Lake in Maui about 5 years ago and he played his didj while a group of friends were hanging out on the beach looking over to Lanai. His playing the didgeridoo was the perfect complement to our natural surroundings. |
Melissa from USA |
Traveling to Australia in 2003. |
Michael from USA |
I heard a kid play one at the Great Serpent Mound. It got to me. My son bought me one as a gift. |
Michael from Canada |
Trip to australia |
Anonymous |
The magic of meditative sound, and most of all the inspiration that you need to tell a story with such an instrument |
Mike from Netherlands |
A nice movie about a yolgnu outcast in conflict with his own world and the "western world". The music intrigued me. |
Mikolaj from USA |
My friends play.. |
Mitchell from Australia |
?? dunno |
Neil from USA |
I love music and I'm always looking for that new sound |
Anonymous from Italy |
The aboriginal culture I think it has always fascinated me |
Norm from USA |
Hearing them and the culture |
Anonymous |
Love the sound and read that it helped with sleep apnea |
Pau Kirst from USA |
My wife plays Native American flute, and we want to do duets with flute and didj. |
Paul Bishop from USA |
As before, the haunting, meditative sounds it can produce are what drew me to the instrument. |
Paul from United Kingdom |
Liked the sound, expressiveness and simplicity of it and the whole cultural thing. |
Paul Woodcraft from United Kingdom |
I went on holiday to Aus. and saw it being played quite fast so I was hooked from then and went and bought one! |
Anonymous |
I love the original native instruments and the almost haunting sound of the didj. I've also found the sounds healing and useful in meditations. |
Peggylynn from USA |
Listening to youtha yindi and other native music |
Peter from Sweden |
The fascinating sound, the meditative feeling, the very interesting history about aboriginal people. I have close contact with the sami culture in Sweden. |
Peter from Australia |
I love the sound, love entertaining my family (esp my 2 1/2 yr old daughter who I played to in the womb) and love what it does for my body. |
Anonymous |
It's dreaming sound, the background of the instrument, all different styles to play,... |
Peter-paul from USA |
The "innovative" unique sounds produced and the amorphous tone as well as the variety of sounds produce while having a soothing sound |
Prakash Arigela from Dominican Republic |
The amazing sound. |
Rafael Adorno from Brazil |
I'm a xamã,i found my sacred instrument |
Raffaele from Australia |
The first time I heard the Didj when I was playing bass in an Irish band. "Then I heard Alen, and Mark" |
Anonymous |
I love the sound |
Anonymous from Canada |
Many things, Xavier has inspired me more in the last while, it's not a foreign instrument to so many people now. |
Rich from USA |
I love the sound of the drone |
Richard from USA |
Heard it played with the Bagpipes by the Wicked Tinkers |
Rob from Australia |
I like the sound and want to learn to play |
Anonymous |
Xavier Rudd |
Robbin from USA |
Heard Vickie Hanson's "Earth Heart" and some Alan Dargin, and then a street busker, who told me where I could purchase a Traditional Eucalyptus stick |
Robert from USA |
Hearing one. Wanting one. Finding one. |
Robert from USA |
Its use as an instrument for healing and ceremony. |
Robert from United Kingdom |
I just love the sound! |
Anonymous |
I have always liked the sound of the Didge ever since I was a young kid and I finally purchased my first didge september last year and started to;earn from a local didge teacher in melbourne. |
Rodney Webb from Australia |
Watching Michael Conolly play at the Brisbane markets; brings tears to the eyes. I bought the one he uses for demonstrations; what a beautiful bass sound. Michael Conolly is an Aborigine, who boxed in tents, drove trucks, and knows the history of his own race - a wonderful guy. He has a shop at Eumundi, Sunshine Coast, QLD. |
Rodrigo Del Castillo Negrete from Mexico |
Sincerely it was on a friends house when I first heard the sound in person, and it simply arose a feeling of true uneasiness and a mysterious touching vibe. Later that day I tried playing it and asked on a brief tutorial on circular breathing, he told me to practice with a bottle and a straw, I tried all sort of techniques even with a blow dart, and when the week finished I could do the circular breathing. I first played on my right hand side of the lips and then realised that if I played on the left hand side I could play more easily and with my tongue. And on the second week I bought my bamboo Didgeridoo, and will never forget the first blow I gave to it and the sound that arose from it. |
Anonymous from USA |
A friend of mine was blowing on a piece of pipe and it sounded like a didgeridoo. I made a PVC didge and was hooked ever since. |
Roi Redondo García from Spain |
Buff, I knew it by Christopher of the Wolves, in Kovenhavn at summer of 99, I play pipe with him, with/because of a juggler, and ear this fantastic sound by first time. I could see whales by his music. few years ago a friend get one, and I start too. mother earth is the inspiration |
Rolf Hebenstreit from USA |
I was on a secluded beach on the island of Maui, Hawaii. An Aussie couple started to play didjes as the sun was setting & the whales where jumping out of the ocean! The sound went straight to my soul...... They told me how to make one from PVC pipe & I never looked back!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
Anonymous from Canada |
I really love the sound and feel of playing and will keep practicing. |
Anonymous from Canada |
This happens to be the same answer I gave above. So I'll paste it here as well.: I was always drawn to the sound of the Didj, even before I knew what I was hearing (movie soundtracks etc). I also kept seeing references to the benefits of the Circular Breathing technique for coping with Anxiety. The combination of being perplexed by the sound and the challenge and potential benefits of learning CB were powerful motivators for me. Also I was going through a major song writer's cramp and complete lack of desire to play the Guitar, which had been a major passion for me for over 30 years. The Didj challenged me and gave me a whole new way to express my musicality. Without a doubt, doing CB for 20 or 30 minutes has a very balancing effect on the Human Organism, almost Adaptogenic in nature. And, of course, it's a lot of fun! |
Anonymous |
I can circular breathe, and do practice regularly, but I'm not sure how "good" I am, thus the above answer is not entirely correct. I have severe sleep apnea. The British Medical Journal, PubMed, Science Daily, ABC News, Discovery and Men's Health magazines, as well as the Apnea Support Forum have articles reviewing the health benefits that playing a didgeridoo can offer those suffering with sleep apnea and snoring. Quote from Reuters: "Regular didgeridoo playing reduces snoring and daytime sleepiness, finds a study published by the British Medical Journal. Snoring and obstructive sleep apnea syndrome are common sleep disorders caused by the collapse of the upper airways. Reports of didgeridoo players experiencing reduced daytime sleepiness and snoring after practicing, led experts in Switzerland to test the theory that training of the upper airways by didgeridoo playing can improve these disorders. They identified 25 patients with moderate obstructive sleep apnea syndrome and who complained about snoring. Patients were randomly allocated to an intervention group (didgeridoo lessons and daily practice at home for four months) or a control group (remained on a waiting list for lessons). Compared with the control group, daytime sleepiness and apnea scores improved significantly in the didgeridoo group. Partners of patients in the didgeridoo group also reported much less sleep disturbance. The authors conclude that regular training of the upper airways by didgeridoo playing reduces daytime sleepiness and snoring in people with moderate obstructive sleep apnea syndrome and also improves the sleep quality of partners". |
Roy Páramo from Spain |
I fell in love with it the first time I saw a guy playing it in a music festival. I started to look for info and learnt by myself |
Anonymous from Portugal |
My friends, and the fact the it is a very relaxing sound when I play for long time. |
Sam Chan from United Kingdom |
I just love the sound of Didj, it is the most beautiful sound on earth |
Samuele from USA |
I saw a guy at an art festival playing one and I fell in love with the sound. After that I just had to learn how to play. |
Anonymous |
Meditation |
Savannah Clark from United Kingdom |
I regularly go to the Glastonbury Festival, and I've wanted to learn how to play since I saw Rolf Harris playing his there when I was 6. I regularly see stalls selling didgeridoos there, and they always like to give demonstrations. I also like to be different, and I'm the only person I know who can even make a sound on a Didgeridoo. |
Scott Dickens from USA |
My 7 year old son |
Scott from Canada |
Study of how didj use helps sleep apnea. |
Scott from USA |
I think the sound is very fascinating. It feels "magical". I can't play them but would like to. |
Sean from USA |
Breathing patterns as a way to ecstacy One of the reasons I began taking yoga was to learn pranayama techniques to be a better didj player. |
Sean Macconnell from Canada |
My mother forced me to choose an instrument to pursue, and I selected the Didgeridoo. |
Anonymous from France |
First I'm very interested by the "lifestyle" of aboriginal people, a lot of respect for their culture and traditions and to play didj gives good vibrations, that's why I play didj only when I feel good and inspired. |
Shane from Malaysia |
I was in need of healing and there was something about the frequency of the didj that made me believe that this instrument would help me in healing myself and indeed it did. |
Anonymous |
My daughter will be studying in Australia this summer and while researching Australia we are beginning to learn about the didj. We love music of all sorts in my home and the children play piano, sax, trombone, bag pipes, flute, violin. Both of the my children can't wait for our didj to arrive. |
Shawn from USA |
Friends just handed me theirs and encouraged me to play. |
Shawn Payment from USA |
I meet a peace walker that had a strange piece of wood strapped to his back after asking about it I got one myself and been in love with it ever since.. |
Anonymous from United Kingdom |
Interest in Aboriginal culture. Intrigued by the sounds that can be made with a didge. |
Simon Barnett from United Kingdom |
I Like the sound and feeling. |
Soraya Benstead from Australia |
I want to learn how to play the didj to show that girls can be just as good a players as men but I wouldn't play it at aboriginal story sites or something. |
Anonymous |
I love the haunting sound of the didj...my son plays. |
Anonymous |
The look, the sound, the people that made them. it's all so unique and to me is so much better than a trumpet or flute etc. |
Stephen from USA |
The sound |
Anonymous from USA |
My uncle can play and I have just been interested since I heard him play. I think it is great! |
Tanya from Canada |
First time I heard it |
Anonymous |
I loved meditation and I see it like one it gives me the feeling that I can blow the negative away and bring back the magic of the moment where everything I now |
Tienne from USA |
I heard one on television when I was 7 years old and fell in love with it |
Tim from USA |
There was a Musical call "Blast", in one set, about 50 performers came out with these "things" and just droning up a storm. I told my wife "I want one" and have been "on the hunt" ever since. |
Anonymous |
I've always liked the way they sound |
Todd from Australia |
Love the sound. Wanted to learn a challenging and unique Australian instrument |
Tommy Dyett from New Zealand |
I went to a womad festival and heard the wonderful sound of xavier rudd and thought that that is the sound for me and have been loving that sound and vibe ever since |
Anonymous from Sweden |
It is a cool instrument and I like the challenge of it |
Anonymous |
The harmony and tranquility that inspires |
William from France |
Its cosmic sound! And its ritual use in Aboriginal culture, which amplified for me the power of the Didgeridoo sound. |
William Powell from USA |
I've always been fascinated by the haunting sounds and rhythms but never tried to play until I began to do educational programs about the aboriginal culture for my job. That required me to learn to play the didge. |
Anonymous |
Part of my job as English teacher |
Anonymous |
I love the sound and I do enjoy the cultural aspect. |
Zachary from USA |
The interesting sounds, I love weird sounding instruments |
