Rare Buwathay F made for ceremony!

You don't often come across an instrument that was made specifically for ceremony. This yirdaki is one such instrument, made by Larry Winiwini's dhuway or brother-in-law, Buwathay Munyarryun. Buwathay is an older brother of Djakapurra and a noted manikaymirr or songman. He makes yirdaki occasionally for sale, but this instrument stands apart from the others for the reason that it was made for ceremony.

Light and thin-walled, this is a rare stick that gives insight into instruments prefered by Yolngu for personal and ceremonial use. It has a totally natural termite-eaten bore, quite smooth with few convolutions inside giving clean yet traditional gruff acoustics.

Resonance is very good on account of thin walls. This stick has a great energy of its own... a truly wonderful yirdaki that would appeal to the trad head or the purist - when nothing but the best would do!

http://www.ididj.com.au/store/fine_didjeridus.html

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• didgeridoo
• yirdaki
• yidaki
• didjeridu
• buwathay
• munyarryun
• wangurri
• larry
• winiwini
• gurruwiwi
• yolngu
• arnhem
• aboriginal

[didgeman101]

i had the pleasure of meeting and playing with david hudson, when i was in aus. he showd me some good trad

[ididjaustralia]

But David Hudson does not play trad, not that I know of anyway. Hudson is from Queensland where the didgeridoo is not a part of unbroken continuing ancestral tradition. He's great at contemporary style though!

[didgeman101]

thats some amazing trad.

[ididjaustralia]

thanks mate, glad u enjoyed it

[GhostofGW]

Ahhh this yidaki, just love it ! and played by the maestro wow !

[mahoran]

Another thing about him is that he is making contemporary split didgeridoos with the enitre bore treated. Interesting..

[didgeman101]

he doesnt normaly play trad, but i asked him if he knew any that he could show me.