origin of a didgeridoo ?

babu · **Joined:** Mon Apr 02, 2007 10:29 pm **Posts:** 13

I still need for the detective service. :roll:

Do you know by any chance what is the origin of the didgeridoo on the attached picture ?
It is 130 cm long

ididjaustralia · **Posted:** Tue May 03, 2011 4:21 pm

Definitely Port Keats/Wadeye/Daly River region!

Guan

babu wrote:

I still need for the detective service. :roll:

Do you know by any chance what is the origin of the didgeridoo on the attached picture ?
It is 130 cm long

babu · **Joined:** Mon Apr 02, 2007 10:29 pm **Posts:** 13

Thank you Guan
This one is in pitch C# with some cracks in the mouth and the bore is untouched as per picture. The sound is acceptable but I am not expecting a bomb looking the shape and thickness of the instrument.
It would be mine's for additionnal 50 AUD if I take also the mago.

What do you think ?

ididjaustralia · **Posted:** Wed May 04, 2011 3:54 pm

Its up to you, have you played them both?

Guan

ozmadman · **Posted:** Wed May 04, 2011 8:34 pm

Reckon it's a steal for an extra $50 the cracks don't look to bad anyway and can easily be fixed even if you just sugar bag them.. can you post a picture of the full instrument

Paul

babu · **Joined:** Mon Apr 02, 2007 10:29 pm **Posts:** 13

ididjaustralia wrote:

Its up to you, have you played them both?

Guan

Yes I did (they are at home for now)
Indeed it is up me...

babu · **Joined:** Mon Apr 02, 2007 10:29 pm **Posts:** 13

ozmadman wrote:

Reckon it's a steal for an extra $50 the cracks don't look to bad anyway and can easily be fixed even if you just sugar bag them.. can you post a picture of the full instrument

Paul

Picture of the instrument is in my 1st message and the one of the bell follows in an other one.

I feel like obviously to fix the cracks and furthermore I feel that re-working inside the bell would release a better sonority without changing the pitch...
Remains the question to know if it is ethic to re-work a traditionnal stick even if this one is low quality...

ozmadman · **Posted:** Thu May 05, 2011 9:32 am

I would repair a stick to make it playable again but I wouldn't re-work any stick for any reason, accept it as it is and was made to be. So, maybe it doesn't play too well? it's not life or death! but it is a piece of history/art/culture that you have in your possession enjoy it as it is and be pleased that you own it even if it only ends up as an ornament..

Paul

Ahaw · **Posted:** Thu May 05, 2011 5:02 pm

+1 with Paul, just fix it but don't touch it.
It doesn't play really well... to your ears.
But maybe a muffled sound is what was meant for a particular instrument, who knows ?
Adapt yourself to the instrument instead of adapting it to you.
I've got a yidaki from Mr M*lk*y himself and in your view I should enlarge the bore 10 times as even if it is short it is by far my heaviest stick, we don't see through it though it is straight, and it sounds muffled... Nevertheless I won't touch it by any means, and when I play some time on it, this muffled sound starts to really gain in power and accuracy and it becomes a really thrilling stick to play as it is so challenging to play it right.

babu · **Joined:** Mon Apr 02, 2007 10:29 pm **Posts:** 13

thanks for your advice guys that I will consider

babu · **Joined:** Mon Apr 02, 2007 10:29 pm **Posts:** 13

Here is a video of this stick singing :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7XkILxw_tI

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