Name and Country |
What inspired you to learn the didj? |
Anonymous |
Love the sound |
Anonymous |
I love the sound and the feeling of playing. See also the next two entries! |
Adriane from Australia |
I think it's a beautiful instrument. I love the history behind it and find it very relaxing. |
Amy from USA |
I am interested in instruments from around the world. I own a djembe, a native american flute, and many more instruments, I am always looking to expand the collection and expose my children to as many music cultures as possible. |
Andre from Germany |
I love this sound and the different ways to play the didj. I love to sit on a fire and play the didj,that's a kind of meditation for me |
Andrea Valentini from Italy |
To rise my concentration |
Anonymous from USA |
I have always been fascinated since my visit to Australia about 15 years ago. |
Aury from Brazil |
Extremamente inspirador |
Baptiste from France |
My uncle, coming back from Sydney 15 years ago, then, a friend who makes his own bamboo Didjes |
Bart from USA |
Over an unknown period of time I heard about and eventually investigated them on the internet. My wife gifted me a bamboo didge and I began to learn. I bought a DVD from Didjshop. Some day I hope I can afford an authentic didge. |
Anonymous from Australia |
An interest in alternative music with a cultural background |
Anonymous from Australia |
Love the sound |
Brian from USA |
I'm half Aussie. Its part of my heritage. |
Chad from Canada |
I have always felt a connection to aboriginal music forms of the world, I cannot READ music, and don't wish to, I feel that this has naturally directed my interest toward music making based on listening and feeling. |
Anonymous |
I just tried, and... that's just... you know when you feel the vibration of the air column, it's fantastic! |
Chris Bittner from USA |
Sounds so cool, looks like fun! |
Chris from USA |
A friend of mine one day was playing one oneday at a festival and I immediately feel in love, it is the most organic, beautiful, and life changing sound, it has helped me in more ways than one. I do believe it to also be a healing device, spiritually, mentally and physically |
Colm O Nuanain from Ireland |
The sound has always transfixed me. I was also interested circular breathing being a trumpet player. Also the power of the sound appeals to me and the variability that's limited only by your imagination and vocal chords |
Dennis from United Kingdom |
I love the sound |
Anonymous from France |
A friend of mine who played, and a band called didgemdi |
Eddy from Australia |
I love the sound as being very natural and soothing. |
Anonymous |
I was under stress and couldn't sleep, it was like ten years ago. I turn the the TV on (it was like 3 am) and I saw a tv program featuring an Aboriginal playing. I knew immediately that this was something for me... 4 years later I divorced and the first thing I did (before finding a new home) was to buy my first didj...Its now my everyday friend! |
Eric from USA |
Fascination and curiosity |
Ezequiel Klauser from Argentina |
A travel to ibiza, there was a lot of Didgeridoo players, amd I say wow I want to doing |
Fernando from Portugal |
I don't now for sure, I've just have interest on the instrument and in the cultural essence of it... |
Flemming from Denmark |
Many years ago I read about aboriginal culture and the didgeridoo. so one day I saw a man playing, and then I just had to get one my self. |
Anonymous from France |
The sound when I first heard someone playing |
Anonymous from USA |
Hearing it in person. |
Anonymous |
Quite bit |
Anonymous |
I liked the sound and then when I started to play and circular breathe I enjoyed the feeling it gave me. Listening to others play inspired me to continue playing and learning about the didgeridoo. |
Jason Steinman from USA |
I'm an art student and was at an art festival. Inlakesh was there selling didges. The sounds were beautiful. I had to have one. |
Anonymous |
The sound |
Jeff from USA |
I have always been fascinated by the sound of the didj and in the aboriginal people. A friend of mine had a didj at his cottage and when I picked it up,I just knew how to play it, and no one else could get a sound from it. I bought a cheap practice didj to learn more with and have been playing about an hour a day ever since then. |
Jim Griffiths from United Kingdom |
Love the sound and cultural links |
John from USA |
Very inspired. I have been practicing my circular breathing with a straw and glass of water. |
Jon from USA |
A buddy of mine played and showed me how to and since it is so original, I decided to stick with it. |
Keith from USA |
Always loved the sound. I love many instruments, this being a favorite. |
Kellie from USA |
My love for indigenous instruments and the beautiful sound I've heard in movies. |
Ken Hrycyk from Canada |
The hypnotic sound is very soothing,calming, rhythmic. I love it! |
Kevin from United Kingdom |
The sound!! It's ear sex! |
Kevin from USA |
I heard it on an Outback Steakhouse commercial and thought it had an interesting sound. |
Kris from Belgium |
14 years ago, my aunt came back from a holiday trip in australia. She brought a small, very easy playable didge with her. She told me how to circulate breathe and it came very quickly. Back at home I made my first didge from a plastic pipe and a paper (!) mouthpiece and I practiced for hours and hours until I didn't feel my lips anymore. It was very hard to find a didge those days in Belgium. Finally I found one made of bamboo. |
Anonymous |
Love the sound |
Anonymous from USA |
I have all ways love Aboriginal cultural I've tried to learn as much as I can. |
Anonymous |
It's old and mystical background. |
Mark Bailie from Australia |
Sitting around the campfire at night in kakadu hearing our guide play. The sounds are so earthly and powerful. |
Mark from United Kingdom |
Just love the sound and how calming it is |
Anonymous from USA |
I heard one played at my school and really wanted one. I have invested a lot of time in learning how to play it. |
Michael from Australia |
My culture..it has called me to play for my people |
Mignon Haslar from New Zealand |
After travelling around Northern Australia and listening to didjes played |
Nikita from Russia |
Its sound. I've heard it once at circus show, so I've got mad about this tremor-like sound |
Pat from USA |
The unique sound |
Patrick from USA |
The fact that the didj was crafted by nature is what inspired me. |
Paul Arguijo from USA |
It found me |
Anonymous |
It interested me. |
Peter from USA |
I don't pretend to have even tried to learn the didj. |
Anonymous |
Hearing Xavier Rudd mainly but I also like the culture and seeing it played live wanted me to learn it |
Ricardo from Chile |
2002 I went to Australia and I saw an aboriginal playing for 1 hour. Last year I went to Barcelona and I saw the guy playing in the street. Definitely in both cases I felt something very special, a connection and this year I decided to learn. |
Anonymous |
Something that has always interested me and I hope that I will be able to continue to learn more about playing the instrument |
Rick from USA |
Not sure. The sound. The mystery of circular breathing. The challenge of learning to play (which is ongoing). How I feel when I play and after I play - relaxed, grounded, a little altered in a sense of consciousness. The humpback whales in Hawaii. |
Robert from USA |
Meditative aspects of most interest |
Russell from USA |
I suppose it was when I first heard it used in modern music. I think it was when I heard "Alien Dreamtime" by Terence McKenna that I fell in love with the didj. |
Ryan Anderson from Australia |
A didj making workshop at Woodford folk festival in Queensland. |
Scott Watkins from USA |
My dad introduced me to the sounds of didgeridoos from down under, many years ago as a child. He tried to learn how to play, but gave up. Since his stroke several years ago, I felt if I could learn to play a didj fairly well, and played it for him, the enchanting sounds and rhythms would give him great pleasure and put a big smile on his face I'm going to surprise him with my didj in a few months after my technique improves. |
Serena from USA |
Hearing them when I visited Kuranda. |
Anonymous |
His wizard sound Su magico sonido |
Stephen from USA |
I love the sound and I saw a show once. |
Steven Laplante from USA |
A friend plays one and I thought it had an interesting sound |
Susanna Reichling from USA |
For class demos (world music) to inspire students to explore the art form |
Terrence Holmes from Netherlands |
My Australian girlfriend & seeing Xavier Rudd live. |
Anonymous from United Kingdom |
I find them fascinating but have barely started |
Tyler Little from USA |
'The Rescueres Down Under' and 'Crocodile Dundee.' |
Tyler from USA |
I have always dreamed of playing the didj. Ever since I was very young and heard the didgeridoo for the first time. |
Tyler from USA |
The sheer sound of this awesome instrument |
Anonymous from USA |
Just like the sound. |
Anonymous |
Its hypnotic sound |
Anonymous from Portugal |
A friend |
Yvonne from Australia |
I am not allowed to play it |
