| Name and Country |
Can different notes be played on the didj? |
Please explain why different notes can or cannot be played on the didj. |
| Antoine from Colombia |
Yes |
Every breath you take and exhale through the didj creates a unique sound...blowing air through a long hollow piece of wood instantly generates sound a note many notes... |
| Arun from New Zealand |
??? |
Not sure changing your pressure and lip position but the tube sets the tone? |
| Anonymous |
No |
Every didge has a drone with a certain key and you have certain toots in other keys but you can't play it like a flute. |
| Brock from USA |
No |
I believe most didj. are toned already for instance a c note didj. etc... |
| Carl Martinez from USA |
Yes |
Using the full breath for controlling tones. |
| Anonymous |
Yes |
I believe you use your vocal chords to play it |
| Anonymous from USA |
Yes |
The didji is pretty much a simple resonating chamber or "echo machine". If you change the note of the source sound you can change the notes of the sounds produced by the instrument. The dimensions of the didj are the physical barriers within which you must audibly operate...I think. |
| Chris Bailey from New Zealand |
Yes |
Because each didj can be made to have different notes depending on the length and width of the tube. |
| Chris Miller from USA |
No |
It only plays a drone but allows different sounds from voice and tongue movements. |
| Anonymous from India |
Yes |
Never thought about it. happens unconsciously I don't feel like explaining it. |
| Anonymous |
Yes |
THE WAY YOU BLOW AND THE POSITION OFF LIPS |
| Dana from USA |
??? |
Not sure |
| Anonymous from USA |
No |
The only way to be multiple notes on a didj is if you are playing on a slider or you overblow and then its still the same note just an octave higher. |
| Darren from Australia |
Yes |
By using your tongue and lips in various ways and using your voice |
| David from USA |
Yes |
I listened to the MP3's of the didj's and it seems that you can produce different notes. |
| David Lassio from USA |
??? |
I would think that the sounds could be different if one had enough experience to make them. |
| Donald from USA |
No |
It can play them same note in a higher or lower octave. |
| Anonymous from USA |
Yes |
I think different notes can be played using different breathing speeds lip positioning |
| Anonymous |
No |
It has to do with beats and rhythm not notes. |
| Fred Simon from United Kingdom |
Yes |
Mouth |
| Gary Niki from USA |
??? |
UNK |
| Goran from Croatia/Hrvatska |
Yes |
We have a basic drone which is in one note and many hoots which are in a different note. |
| Grady Karp from USA |
Yes |
Singing is the first frequency of lip flapping is the second |
| Hans Eirik from Norway |
Yes |
You do it with your mouth/lips |
| Anonymous from Australia |
Yes |
Although the base note remains use of voice and variations in the lips can change the sound produced |
| Anonymous |
Yes |
You can accentuate sounds with your mouth |
| Jacob from USA |
Yes |
The didj has one key however with different mouth movements one can make different sounds and notes. |
| James from USA |
Yes |
Blow more or less air and use your mouth and tongue to make different notes. |
| Jamie from USA |
Yes |
A contemporary slide didj is able to play many different pitches much like a trombone. |
| Jason from USA |
Yes |
By rolling the tongue circular breathing blowing out the side of your mouth vocals etc. |
| Anonymous |
Yes |
Different notes can be accomplished with lip tautness. |
| Jessica Wilson from Canada |
Yes |
Like we use our body to change the flow of air and sound vibrations coming out of our body we can alter the wind flow through the didgeridoo in a similar way |
| Jim from USA |
Yes |
There is the main note but also a higher note a kind of harmonic that can be played using a technique I don't know. |
| Anonymous |
Yes |
Each didj has a fundamental frequency at which it can be played other frequencies eg the hoot which are harmonics may be playable depending on the didj |
| Anonymous |
Yes |
It depends on the player and the didj itself.One must learn the basics and how to control it |
| Jonathan from Australia |
Yes |
I believe a didj can play the notes within the key it was made. |
| Joseph Carringer from USA |
Yes |
The drown is the main note of the didge but the hoot note has 1 main and 2 over tones above usually producing tones from different keys. The didge also fluctuates inside the drown not +-20% from it's base note and may even produce an entirely different note while playing a rhythm. That being said because it is a drone instrument that is playing a single key/note 95% of the time it is widely accepted that he didge is a fixed key single note or key instrument. You can also get a slide didge made from various materials to be able to change key while playing but again this is not traditional but instead an exception to the rule. |
| Joy from USA |
??? |
Don't know |
| Justin from USA |
Yes |
Hum different notes into it |
| Anonymous from Australia |
Yes |
The hoot and the drone are different notes |
| Keith from USA |
Yes |
Didj is tuned to a key but one can produce a variety of sounds using larynx tongue throat lungs etc.. but I am not studied in musical lexicon so perhaps I miss the question. |
| Keith from Ireland |
Yes |
Different didj's have different keys and by using playing techniques you can alter the pitch and tone of each didj |
| Kenneth from Australia |
Yes |
Mouth shapes. Tightening of lips |
| Laura from USA |
??? |
Limitations of the holes? |
| Lauren from USA |
No |
A didj is tuned to one particular note. |
| Licia from USA |
Yes |
I learned this years ago and amhaving trouble remembering but I think it using your breath and how u blow into it |
| Lindsay from USA |
Yes |
Manipulated by the breath |
| Luke from Canada |
No |
You can have different over or under tones but its still the same basic note. |
| Anonymous |
??? |
Each didj has its own pitch |
| Margaret from USA |
??? |
Uh er in my limited experience there is one drone or bass note over which one vocalizes. |
| Anonymous |
??? |
I don't know. |
| Matt from USA |
No |
A didge has a discrete length and girth which produces a discrete resonating frequency. There are no finger holes slides or inserts |
| Michael Benner from USA |
Yes |
Harmonics (bugle tones) and pitch bending with embouchure. |
| Michael from Germany |
Yes |
There is a ground tone and a toot. These both are mostly two different tones. |
| Mike from USA |
Yes |
The player can "bend" a note to become # or flat. |
| Milos from Slovakia |
??? |
I do not know I am not a musician |
| Nathan from USA |
Yes |
The drone is where most of the playing is done however by tightening the buzz there are several trumpet tones that can be reached. |
| Anonymous from Australia |
Yes |
Variation in shape diameter mouth technique etc. |
| Anonymous |
??? |
Je ne sais pas car je souhaite apprendre le didj |
| Paul Gristwood from United Kingdom |
No |
Because the dij is cut to play individual notes |
| Richard Appleton from USA |
Yes |
By tightening up you lips or loosening them you can change from a sharp to a flat etc to a toot is also a diff note |
| Richard Hinkel from Us Minor Outlying Islands |
No |
The pitch can not be changed therefore limiting the dig to on note. |
| Richard from USA |
Yes |
Using your lips and throat |
| Robin Dark from United Kingdom |
No |
Tuned to produce a single note |
| Robyn from Canada |
Yes |
I think it can but not sure why -- different air pressure |
| Russ from USA |
Yes |
By manipulating your mouth |
| Anonymous from USA |
Yes |
By varying the pressure and speed of the delivery of air. |
| Anonymous |
No |
Don't know |
| Scot Magnuson from USA |
No |
A slight pitch change but each didge has it's "note" that you cannot change when playing. Instruments such as a flute have holes that change the air flow and pressure thus changing notes. |
| Scott from USA |
Yes |
Through the use of blowing harder and instruments like the didjeribone! |
| Sean from New Zealand |
Yes |
The way the tongue is moved around in the mouth |
| Seth from USA |
Yes |
Didgeridoos play a steady drone but they can play other notes "on top" of the drone by means of the overtone scale. Overtones are natural pitches which build above a base note or drone. With a didgeridoo the notes can be achieved by either changing the shape of one's mouth or by using vocalizations. (While vocalizations can produce any note only notes on the overtone scale come out clear and strong.) |
| Anonymous |
Yes |
I'm not a musician but my daughter is. She could explain it better than myself but I suspect it has something to do with the flow of air. |
| Anonymous from USA |
Yes |
I don't know I have heard different sounds? |
| Anonymous from Australia |
Yes |
Not enough experience to say. But I would suggest that it is due to changes in the Hz rate of the moving air in conjunction with its effect upon the back pressure of any given didj. Further the type weight and density of the didj material would play a part as well. |
| Anonymous |
Yes |
Different inflections of the vocal cords can create tones or notes |
| Tim from Japan |
Yes |
By altering the shape of the lips and force of air |
| Xavier Bellay from France |
??? |
Sorry but I am a beginner and I get feeling with my didj. |
