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Making and Playing a Didgeridoo

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Tall Paul (Paul Cook) shares his passion for all things didgeridoo - explaining the principles of making these wonderful wind instruments and how choice of timber (from beech to eucalyptus) effects sound quality - creating varying tones, reverberations and volume. Tall Paul also demonstrates the specific playing methods and circular breathing techniques needed to produce the distinctive didgeridoo sound - all at the Bentley Woodfair http://www.bentley.org.uk/
http://www.didgetallpaul.co.uk/ An Adliberate film http://www.adliberate.co.uk for WoodlandsTV http://www.woodlands.co.uk/tv


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and now someone who knows how to play https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffzTeT7M7Ro

Trevor Brown

May 15, 2018

Making my own didges but your ones are masterfully crafted!

Lord Metri

May 16, 2018

..search on youtube for the sound of the Romanian Carpathian horn (search this: "Arieseni,muntii apuseni" or "Death announcement bucium"). It sounds quite similary with a didge, and it's played similarly. That instrument is documented since millennia as well (pre-Roman history).

florin baiduc

June 4, 2018

Hi Florin – there was many horns for many millenia (swiss alps sheperds made massive ones) yes but no Didgeridoo. The argument we have with Paul is that he claims an actual Didgeridoo (split in half tree trunk glued back together) was found when it was not – Paul is confusing it with early examples of Uillean Pipes found in a bog (which were not split) We talk here about a specific instrument not general wind instruments. The Didgeridoo is not like other horns. Thanks for your interest though.

TheStuF

June 5, 2018

Didgeridoo is a brass then since you blow it with your lips like a giant trumpet.

Kevin Vang

August 26, 2018

lewis i thought we got on well when we met i certainly didn't say you were encroaching on my business it was i didge festival ,why on earth would i be against you bringing your instruments?

Elementary Festival

September 16, 2018

Cool video, thanks

LEARNING 2 LEVITATE

September 26, 2018

It was the Loughnashade bronze war trumpet

Brian Thorp

November 10, 2018

beatboxing into a didgeridoo sounds like shit

TheFirstNobody

November 20, 2018

спасибо