| Name and Country |
Can different notes be played on the didj? |
Please explain why different notes can or cannot be played on the didj. |
| Anonymous |
Yes |
How hard you blow....hehe |
| Anonymous from USA |
Yes |
The way you move your lips can make notes sound different. |
| Amanda from USA |
No |
I don't know. Maybe because it is one simple tube with no curves like a bugle. Less ability to manipulate the mouth? |
| Anna Lisa from USA |
Yes |
Different Key range? Not all Frequency and wave lengths are able to produce certain notes because of width length timber? |
| Anonymous from USA |
No |
It is my understanding that all Didgeridoos come fixed with one key. While percussive noises and changes in the rhythm can occur the original key of the didj will remain the same. |
| Betsy from USA |
Yes |
By changing the pitch of your voice as you blow into the did you can change the notes of the musical result. |
| Brian Gant from USA |
Yes |
Different notes can be played because of the variation in sound produced by the players mouth |
| Carl from USA |
No |
The didj can only play one note. |
| Carol Dodd from USA |
Yes |
By changing how the mouth fits around the instrument and how the breath goes through |
| Chelsea Axelsson from USA |
Yes |
Every didj plays at a different note due to the size of its diameter and length so with every variation a different sound is made when air is blown through it. |
| Anonymous |
Yes |
Slide |
| Anonymous from USA |
Yes |
It's all about frequency |
| Dan Schmidt from Canada |
Yes |
Notes are simply harmonics and the didge is harmonically rich. |
| Daniel from Us Minor Outlying Islands |
Yes |
Through horns and barks and growls different notes are possible other than the standard drone. Multi-Drone didges also have started making appearances from different builders some with as many as 5 different drone options. |
| Daniel from USA |
No |
Apart from vocalizations each didge plays basically one note- toots/hoots are approx. an octave higher than base note. You can emphasise diff. harmonics with lips tongue throat etc.. but still not 'notes' as such imnsho. |
| Anonymous from USA |
Yes |
Not really sure |
| David Carter from USA |
Yes |
By use of the tongue vocal cords and lips. As well as the air pressure created by you breathing. |
| Doug from Australia |
No |
Can make the same notes sound different by tonguing etc but can only play one note based on the material used the width of the hollow etc. |
| Eric Proulx from USA |
Yes |
Position of your jaw/tongue tightness of lips sliders and recently I have been experimenting with harmony throat vibration |
| Anonymous from Mexico |
No |
Otherwise it would need holes like a flute |
| Anonymous |
Yes |
The tongue and airflow |
| Kelley from USA |
Yes |
I do not play an instrument but I can feel the different notes as they vibrate within the body. |
| Anonymous |
??? |
Not sure |
| Kok Koh Ho from Singapore |
Yes |
We can control the sound using our mouth. |
| Liam from Australia |
??? |
The only way different notes can be played on a didj is by resonating the sound wave by the next node on the sound wave. This in fact would produce the same note an octave higher.??? |
| Anonymous |
Yes |
Depending the strength of the blow and the cry we can do |
| Anonymous |
Yes |
Depends on experience of player and they're teacher. |
| Anonymous |
No |
Because the sound the didj makes contains many frequencies of different notes |
| Matt Stanford from Australia |
Yes |
Depends on the skill of the player and the quality of the instrument |
| Nicole from Germany |
Yes |
I can't read notes but I have heard it. as far as I know it is the mouth/tongue/lips that create the different notes. |
| Owen Mccall from Canada |
Yes |
There are two meanings of the word note. 1. Different pitches. On a didj tightening the embouchure will produce a higher pitched "horn" tone so this constitutes a note other than the basic drone. Also I discovered the pitch of basic drone itself can be altered to some degree. 2. Different timbres. Like a percussion instrument different sounds can be considered different notes. In this respect the didj had many "notes". |
| Anonymous |
No |
I think the didj is made to one note. |
| Ron from USA |
Yes |
Not sure but by tightening or relaxing the lips the pitch seems to vary from higher to lower. Adding overtones changes the sound. again new to this so not sure. |
| Russell Menezes from India |
Yes |
U can hum different notes |
| Anonymous |
Yes |
Each didj has its own note. Some plastic didj offer the possibility changing it by elongating its body while/before playing. |
| Sean from USA |
Yes |
I have heard people trumpet different notes on the didge |
| Anonymous from Israel |
Yes |
Well the toots are different notes and also some techniques allow to play more than one notes on didj's who are built in a certain way. |
| Stephen from USA |
Yes |
Notes are varied using different "buzz" of the lips movement of tongue and air speed. |
| Troy from USA |
Yes |
By blowing differently |
| Wil Rikken from Belgium |
Yes |
If notes with octave-intervals are different notes CI CII CIII then Yes Also beside the "Drone"-note you can "sing/humm" while droning so this is a yes? |
| Wilhelm from USA |
Yes |
Because you can have a "hoot key" whereas a Didge can be tuned to one key but manipulated through the player to have another. |
