Name and Country |
What is the most common question people ask you about the didgeridoo? |
What do you answer? |
Alan from United Kingdom |
How hard is it to play |
Easy when you know how same as all instruments practice makes perfect & more practice |
Anonymous |
What is a didgeridoo? |
I don't know What is it? |
Anatoliy from Ukraine |
What's this?:) |
Wooden aboriginal instrument from australia like ukrainian trembita |
Anonymous from Canada |
How do you play it? |
It is all about circular breathing and then give them the blowing bubbles through a straw. |
Anette Solgaard from Denmark |
How many notes is it possible to play on a didgeridoo? |
10. |
Angela from USA |
How do you play it? |
I show them |
Anthony Dias from Portugal |
1) Is that a stick you just stole?2) How can you do the circular breathing?3) Man, are you going to kick my butt with that piece of wood? =) |
1) yeah it was near a construction building 2) I just keep on farting trough the all process..lol 3) No...I'm a pacifist...(but don't touch my sister..=) |
Bob from Canada |
How do you play it, what is that thing, how did you figure it out |
Usually I try to explain the basics of circular breathing and explain the basic drone I will sometimes sit down and give them a basic lesson and let them try it out |
Anonymous from USA |
Not yet a didge player yet. Trying to get a good didgeridoo |
Look it up on the net |
Bruce from USA |
Isn't hard to play? |
It is like anything else the more you practice the easier it is. |
Anonymous |
How is it played |
Circular breathe |
Carlos from Portugal |
How is it made? |
Well the builder picks a branch (or even the main trunk of the tree) that he finds to be good (being the original indigenous didgeridoos made of various kinds of eucalyptus) and if possible that is already hollowed by termites. It's then finished by trimming the ends and applying a rim of beeswax in the mouthpiece. It can be decorated with really beautiful dot paintings very colourful. |
Anonymous from USA |
Why would you want to play a didgeridoo, it's so primitive? |
I want to play because of the beautiful wide variety of sounds the didj is capable of producing. I want to play because it is a primitive instrument not in spite of that. The didj helps your spirit to escape its physical bounds and soar to new heights. |
Anonymous |
How do you circular breath |
I just show them |
Chris from USA |
What is it |
An awesome aboriginal instrument |
Anonymous |
I don't have one yet |
I don't have one yet |
Chris Thorn from United Kingdom |
How do you play it? |
Tighten your lips and blow a raspberry sound and keep practicing until you hear the drone. To circular breath place a straw in a glass of water and try to keep the bubbles blowing without a stop. |
Anonymous |
How are you doing that? |
To get the basic sound I vibrate my lips against one end of the didge which is essentially a hollow tube. Then I may say a little about how the variations un sound are produced. |
Christian Robert from France |
I'm not a didj player yet so people don't ask me anything about them.Yet I play the bagpipe _ the French musette du Centre France_ so the people I meet know what didgeridoos are. |
I always say I love the sound of this unique instrument and that it's more than an instrument to me. I think that this beautiful profound sound relates us human beings to the spiritual world. |
Colin Hawkins from USA |
They see them in my house and ask what it is, I bring it too my school and use it to interact with the students. |
I tell them that it's a wind instrument. and how it's made from a tree that is naturally hollowed out my termites. that you use a process called circular breathing to play them. adults and school kids understand best when you describe circular breathing when you blow bubbles in milk and breath in through you nose and out your mouth at the same time. |
Cristian Neely from Chile |
Oooh! ¿What's that? |
It's a didgeridoo it's an awesome instrument played by the australian aborigines. |
Damien Broens from Belgium |
What's that? |
A very old aboriginal instrument |
Anonymous from USA |
Is it easy to play? |
...For an Aboriginal... |
Daniel from Spain |
How it is played? |
Blowing |
David from USA |
What's the story behind the artwork? |
Depends on the artwork. Usually I try to explain what little I know about Aboriginal artwork and the cultural stories it so often tells. |
David Klein from USA |
How do you spell it? |
There are multiple ways of spelling it I do not believe there is a published "official version" |
David from USA |
How do you do that? |
While Playing the Didgeridoo it is Possible to Levitate a Light Object in Front of the Instrument. |
Anonymous from USA |
What is it |
Art instrument |
Dean from Australia |
How do you circular breath |
Try squirting water out your mouth using your cheeks and breath in using your nose |
Ed from USA |
What is it? |
An aboriginal instrument from Australia |
Elliott Deighton from Canada |
Are they hard to play |
Not really but to play a didj well like any other instrument takes practice |
Emile Gluck-thaler from Canada |
Oh my God! What is THAT? |
Its a didgeridoo. |
Emily from USA |
How do you make that sound? |
You just go.. (proceed to show how it is done) |
Eric from USA |
What is that? |
Its an aboriginal instrument hollowed out by termites. |
Florent from France |
What is a didgeridoo? |
It's a musical instrument a stick of wood dud by termites which you play music by blowing crying inside and by moving your lips. |
Frank Wagner from USA |
Do you have one |
Yes I do |
Gerard from Sweden |
What is that? |
An ancient aboriginal instrument culturally and spiritually important. |
Gerrit from Netherlands |
How is this circular breathing possible? |
It is a simple trick. think of a balloon and squeeze it empty with your hands. at the same time breathe in through your nose. if that works try this with filling your cheeks with air and squeeze the air out. at the same time inhale through your nose. |
Greg Thorn from United Kingdom |
How do you play this thing??!! |
Practice makes perfect fancy a quick lesson.....? |
Anonymous |
If I can play |
Not really |
Hans-jürgen from Germany |
Who does make the hole into the wood. |
In Australia the termites in other lands the people |
Isaac Firesmith from USA |
How do you keep playing with out breathing? |
I'm cyclically breathing. I push air out of my mouth with my cheeks while I breath in with my lungs. |
Jared from USA |
How do u do that |
Try to explain |
Javier Rembado from Spain |
Extrangeros |
That is original of Australia |
Joe from USA |
I usually get two questions1. What is that?2. What kind of wood is it made from? |
1. That it is an Australian Aborigine instrument. 2. That the wood is a very rare species of tree called the PVC tree. |
John Tasch from USA |
What is a didgeridoo? |
A traditional musical instrument of aboriginal australians made from tree branches that have been hollowed out by termites. |
Juan Boulter from Australia |
How do you do the circular breathing? |
It is not circular. When you feel you are running out of air you make sure you have some stored in your cheeks to continue the note while you take a breath. You just expel the air you have stored while replenishing your lungs..... |
Julio Peña from Paraguay |
What is a Didgeridoo? |
It's a healing musical instrument. It is very ancient from australian native people. |
Kari from USA |
Why does this strange sound attract you?! |
Because I speaks to my spirit even if I am a world away from where it is traditionally played and made. I see it as a connection straight through the heart to my friends and neighbors of planet earth. |
Kathryn from Australia |
How can they get that sound and who makes them. |
I try to explain re-circulation breathing and that the good one are made by Aboriginal people with the help of nature |
Kei Tomono from Japan |
Interesting sound |
Yes I like it very much. You can Play!! |
Kelsey from USA |
How do you play it? |
Keep trying you can't give up on the first time because you don't make a pretty sound. |
Ken Betteley from Australia |
How do you circular breath |
I try to show them how easy it is |
Ken from USA |
Usually people ask me what my didge is, or they ask if I can do circular breathing (not yet!) |
I tell them what it is and that it is my favorite instrument. |
Kirk from USA |
What is it? |
An Aboriginal instrument-the world's oldest-with lots of soul. |
Kris from Canada |
What is it? |
It is a didgeridoo. |
Kristoffer Stewart from United Kingdom |
They will ask me how's it made |
I give them a long answer for a talking and listening project in school I decided to bring in the didgeridoo and show them it and tell them about it. I tell them how the termites eat it from the core and then they get washed out and cleaned then I explain the aboriginal arts which are painted. I try to explain I a way so that they no that it is not just something which is sold to tourists but part of the culture. |
Kylie from Australia |
Can I have a play??? |
Only the boys |
Larry from USA |
What IS that??? |
It is an indigenous musical instrument from my wife's home country let me play it for you! |
Laszlo from Switzerland |
What is that for an instrument?Where is it from?Why did You learn that to play? |
Didgeridoo From the Aborigines from Australia It is going deep inside in me. And I can relax with this wonderful Instrument. |
Anonymous from Italy |
How do you do the circular breathing? |
The real story of my learning: I first heard and learned about the sardinian Launeddas (three single-reed cane clarinets played by circular breathing since at least 3000 years. Do you know about this instrument?) and saw a documentary on that. Then I met the Didgeridoo and I started as a total self-learned without being able to breathe correctly. Then I moved for one year into a different city Amsterdam. There I met many good didge players and learned more about the aboriginal culture especially through the discovery of Chatwin's books. I did not have a didge with me there and was playing different instruments (frame drums jew's harps). After about one year I went back to Bologna and found my bamboo didge in the cellar of my sub-lent flat. I tried and...almost magically I started to do the circular breathing. |
Luciano Aguiar from Brazil |
No brasil este instrumento é raro, pouco conhecido! |
É interessante conhecer-mos culturas de outros países |
Mac from USA |
What is a didjamadoo? |
It's the oldest wind instrument! |
Marco Paoletti from Italy |
Da dove viene?come si suona?è fatica?come si fa il suono continuo? |
Australian aborigen facendolo vibrare no non si fatica con la respirazione circolare |
Mark from USA |
Huh? |
Rolf Harris |
Mark Hickinbotham from USA |
How do you make the sound? |
Simply relax your face and lips then blow a raspberry into the didge (sometimes needing to tighten the lips a little once the drone has started). |
Mary Lindhart from USA |
What does it sound like |
I pretend and make the closest noise with my voice that I can to imitate it!! |
Nigel Mason from United Kingdom |
How do you get all the breath to blow that thing |
You only need enough breath to blow out a candle. |
Pablo Sebastian Meza from Argentina |
What you feel when you play Didgeridoo? |
I feel the vibration in my body I feel the hyperventilation I make a travel for another place like a meditation like a trance |
Palle Kjær Laursen from Denmark |
Can I try it? |
Yes |
Anonymous |
How do I pLay it? |
It's like giving a baby a raspberry into the mouthpiece then I show them |
Anonymous from Spain |
How do you can do this sounds? |
Being patient |
Anonymous |
How long have you played |
Since I was a kid |
Pieter Hamming from Netherlands |
How to play the didgeridoo |
Circular breathing |
Ricardo from Portugal |
Some times the name and what I do to make that sound... |
I usually say that it's an Didgeridoo.... and the sound its more difficult to explain... |
Richard Craven from USA |
I've not been asked yet, currently don't own one. |
Not applicable |
Anonymous |
What is that? |
Didgeridoo |
Rodney from USA |
Don't you run out of breath? Or How much did that didge cost? |
I always tell them about circular breath. |
Anonymous from Israel |
What is this? |
Didj. an australian instrument. instrument of truth. making music from the body and soul only.. |
Rowena from Australia |
How hard is it to play? |
Not really practice daily. |
Sean from USA |
How is the sound made? |
Through cyclic breathing in the nose and out the mouth the artist vocalizes a a drone or ton and uses the mouth to embellish it. |
Sean Jackson from USA |
How do you play it, where did you get it? |
I will show them how give them tips loan them my didge for a weekend. Melbourne. |
Shae from Australia |
Where to buy a didgeridoo? |
Didgeridoos can be bought cheaply from many places but as the cultural right of indigenous Australians you should ensure that you buy genuine items. This encourages indigenous pride and provides meaningful income for the traditional owners of the didge. It also means that as the buyer you are getting an authentic didgeridoo. |
Anonymous |
Is it hard to breathe |
Not once you know how |
Stephen from Canada |
A lot of people ask what my didgeridoo is made from. |
I tell them that it is a piece of Eucalyptus that has been hollowed out by termites. |
Steve from United Kingdom |
How do you get a sound |
Use loose lips and blow like a horse |
Susan from USA |
What is it? |
A wooden Aboriginal pipe instrument |
Tamara Suey from Australia |
Why don't females play the didj. |
Because our culture identifies the didj as a man's instrument and forbids females to use it-if they do they will be cursed in some way! |
Teresa from USA |
Can you play? |
I'm working on it. But here's a site that has Didjes! |
Anonymous |
What is it? |
I'm not sure |
Tim from USA |
What do you do with it? |
It's a musical instrument (then I play it for them.) |
Tony from USA |
Is it hard to play? |
Not really. If you can blow a raspberry sound then you can play the didj |
Tony from Canada |
How is it made |
Lunch for termites |
Tyler from USA |
What is it? |
It is an instrument made by aborigines from Aus. Would you like t hear it? |
Anonymous |
Why do you choose a didge? |
Because of the 'Mystic roaring sound' |
William Bode from USA |
How can you play with out stopping? |
Using the circular breath |