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  • Awesome experience i bet

  • What show or documentary was this footage taken from? I would like to see more.

  • @NorseRonin It is taken from a regional BBC TV program called Heart of the Country. The main focus of the piece was a profile of my band Dr. Didg, but it included this section about my trip to live with the Aborigines and the video footage I shot there. If you are interested in the band there is more of the program in another YouTube video titled "Dr. Didg Interview Pt. 1"

  • Thanks, really thanks fot share this life style,

    the roots.

  • I wonder if I can make a Didj with a tough brach from a Peach tree, if the recommendations support for this kind of tree, I 'll inmediately chop down a nice tough brach from my tree and try to follow the step to make my own Didj.

  • The tree needs to be dead in order for the didgeridoo to work?

  • @LizardKing691 My memory is that the trees still had leaves on them and were alive, which is possible since the sapwood under the bark would still be intact as the termites hollowed it out up the middle, at least at first.

  • @gwdidg thanks :) but it doesn't really need to be eaten by termites to be good right? and can u name the best type of wood to make didgeridoos, or i can just pick any type of wood?

    i'd really apreciate if u answered this cuz i wanna make some :D

  • @LizardKing691 It needs to be a hard wood, ideally closed grained. I have made a good one from Cherry, and I have played decent ones made from Oak (even though Oak is not closed grained). The main thing is to get the shape right, with a gradual taper and not just a straight cylinder.

  • thats cool did they teach you to use a woomera?

  • @jacksoncole79 No, I never saw them use a spear except for fishing.

  • cool thnx for that!

  • hmmm could u send me this video? i could need it for school

  • you can download youtube vids

  • tubetilla bro...im abit late

  • Sweet! Its really cool to see how they do it! I make my own. I hollow mine out though.

  • Cool video! Graham is pretty much the reason I started playing didge. I heard his band Outback

    years ago and I was hooked!

  • great video

  • i never knew that they used the old rotting wood

  • They don't use old rotting wood. Live trees that have been hollowed by termites are selected and then shaved down for use.

  • Yes thats right.How good of you to point this out .

  • The wood is rotting but partly eaten out by termites.

  • I would like this video never ends!

  • that not him first go.. him be do that before aye

    him pretty good one

  • Long live Dr. Didg.

    I think I must have just about all of his albums.

    Now then, if only Dr. Didg and J-M Jarre were to team up for a concert, hmmmmm.... I think I'd be in heaven !!!

  • Why don't we have those bugs in holland?Better not,I think.

    That must have been a great experience GWDidge.

  • very captivating and interesting ,,i would love to experience this as you did ,,great stuff.

  • Pretty Cool video of a Balanda learning from the originators of the Yidaki,how to make one.Nice!!!!

  • cool

  • :-)

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