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Post by FINN on Jan 16, 2006 20:03:27 GMT
Well, after about spending 3 hours (total) with this instrument i have mastered it. I feel safe to say that the digarydoo is probably the easiest instrument to learn. The circular breathing bit took me an hour to get, but since i could already do this on the practice chanter it wasn't too hard.
However my digarydoo is a warped piece of PVC pipe that had been sitting underneath a kayak thats been in the making for about 3 years, and with a bit of steam and pressure the mouth piece became a perfect fit.
Right, just felt like bragging that bit....
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Post by mrzdavid on Jan 17, 2006 1:06:54 GMT
But how do you tune it?
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Post by Ash on Jan 17, 2006 12:30:38 GMT
My sister got one for her Xmas. I've had a wee go but not really tried. My wee nephew, is 4 in April and he's been playing about with it. He needs help holding it but he can get a wee tune out of it.
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Post by FINN on Jan 17, 2006 21:11:49 GMT
It is a funny thing, i think you can have it roughly "tuned" by the width of the hole at the end, and the length of it. i suppose it dosnt really mattrer, but definatly sounds like it could be out of tune it the case came to it.
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Post by sjcavy on Feb 17, 2008 22:31:20 GMT
you tune a didjeridoo (us trad players call them yidaki) buy how long they are and the width of most of the tube on the inside. and it does matter if it is tune or not. go buy a eucalyptus yidaki, then come back and tell me it is the easiest to learn how to play. can you make the vocals? how about the harmonics? can you do it in the kangaroo style? can you trumpet? go listen to xavier rudd and tell me you are as good as he is.
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Post by greginlondon on Feb 17, 2008 23:42:41 GMT
I'm sure that the didgeridoo (or yidaki, if you prefer) suffers from the same image problem as anything superficially simple - anyone who can make a note feels that they have mastered it, possibly because they haven't listened to anyone else playing that really CAN play.
Usually we hear them in a recording where they provide a backing - any ornamentation doesn't get heard - or noticed - and there's probably not many really good solo or duet recordings in wide circulation.
I wondered about your comments about tuning, though. How does it matter if/how it is tuned, though, other than to play a duet with another didg player ? Surely if you don't tune it you will still get similar overtones, but just transposed up or down in pitch slightly.
I ask as I've no idea - I've not even experimented with a plastic pipe, let alone a proper didgeridoo.
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Post by ego on Feb 18, 2008 22:36:57 GMT
By the way what is this mysterious connection between the didgeridoo and the pipes? Since I started piping, I so often have heard people talking about didgeridoos that I don't believe this can be a coincidence.
Of course, there's circular breath, but "classical" instruments feature that too and it soesn't play that much a big role on the pipes...
Just asking of curiosity.
Please excuse bad grammar -> drunk
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Post by malgremor on Apr 22, 2009 0:47:44 GMT
There is a myth out there among people that don't know that the bagpipe is a woodwind that it operates like a didgeridoo. Some think it operates like a kazoo. Every day I have to educate someone on this...then they respect the instrument more. I have come to appreciate the Didgeridoo since coming to like the Wicked Tinkers & I want to find a didge player who will jam with me. Didges come in different keys & you have to find one that corresponds to our bagpipe "A". I should think it wouldn't be too hard to put together an act similar to what the Tinkers are doing. I'm going to work on it when I get to New York.
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Post by Cowher on Sept 8, 2009 21:35:38 GMT
I learned about ten years ago. And it is hard to master. It's NOT hard to play. But hard to master. I payed down a few tracks and I actually mixed up with a few bagpipe tunes the interaction between pipes and the didg are so raw and tribal. I think it's a incredible combo
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