Name and Country |
What inspired you to learn the didj? |
Alexandre Nogueira from Portugal |
Her beautiful sound |
Amadeus from United Kingdom |
My aunt bought me a cheap bamboo didj when I was 11. It entranced me completely. |
Amber from USA |
I know it is rhythmic healing music. |
Amy from USA |
A teacher at my healing school played the didj for us and had us sense how it effected our energetic field. I really liked the deep earthlike feel to it, as well at the structural qualities it had. |
Anonymous |
Always had an interest |
Annetta from USA |
I am drawn to the soothing sounds it produces. |
Atticus from Australia |
Moving to australia |
Anonymous from Australia |
Heard them being played in alice springs |
Brett Makowski from USA |
I have always been drawn to Indigenous cultures, probably do to the lack of personal cultural heritage. The Aboriginal people and instruments have intrigued me for a lifetime. |
Brian from Canada |
I liked the sound of the didge plus I am a sucker for a new and uncommon instrument. I bought a PVC didge at the beginning and taught myself to play on that. I'm also a Music Student studying Voice as a Tenor and we were doing an Australian piece in the Choir so I decided to build some sliding didges from ABS piping to accompany them on those. I also purchased a wooden didge but it is a mass produced, low quality didge but I still like it more then PVC for some of it's qualities. I've been looking for a quality didge for a while now but am a touch hesitant about purchasing one without getting a chance to play it. |
Casey from USA |
My friend went to Australia and sent me some music of Xavier Rudd's music. I'd heard about Didjes before, but had never seen one or heard one played well. I went out and found a dead agave and hollowed it and tried to play. Lucky me, I got the drone down pretty quick. |
Charles from USA |
I'm really into boomerangs. |
Anonymous |
Finally hearing someone play one well, and I'm a bass player/bass luthier, and I love the resonance and rhythmic possibilities I've encountered, and from such a simple instrument. Perfect. No strings, no tunings, no electronics, no bow, nothing except the didge, and a person. Even better than acoustic or viol instruments, due to simplicity. A little limited in note variation, but everything is unique. |
Anonymous |
I saw a really cheap one and I had the money, so I decided to buy it. As s oon as the store owner gave me a brief tutorial, I fell in love with it |
Anonymous |
I liked the sound of it and wanted to see if I could do it. |
Anonymous |
Circular breathing is healthy and the instrument sounds like the om of the earth |
Christopher Kosek from USA |
A friend of mine owned a Didj and after hearing him play it I borrowed and and became addicted |
Chrystal from USA |
Sleep Apnea |
Claudia from Italy |
Curiosity |
Conor Kelly from Australia |
Xavier Rudd and I was just messing around with the copper pipe and then looked up some didj techniques |
Curtis from USA |
A friend |
Daniele Baldan from Italy |
My travel in australia |
David from Canada |
The beautiful sounds |
David from USA |
I have always loved the droning sound of the instrument, but was inspired to learn to play by my friend. He made one out of bamboo and it made me realize I could make one too. |
Derek Rusinek from USA |
Since I have first heard of the instrument It amazed me. When I found out my friend had one I decided to make my own. |
Edward Olson from USA |
A fellow worker brought his to work, I asked him about it and have been hooked since. |
Anonymous |
Zalem |
Gabriele Parrillo from Italy |
The power of vibrations discovered on my sacrum bone the possibility to massage with sounds to cure with sounds |
Guido from Italy |
I visit this page today |
Anonymous |
Festivals |
Harold from USA |
Its a cool sound |
Hilary from USA |
Performances seen in Australia |
Anonymous from Australia |
Cultural interest over the years |
Ivor Carter from Australia |
David Gulpilil and even before that in the late 1960s a show on the ABC called Charinga (I think the spelling is incorrect but that's what it sounds like) |
James Nesbit from USA |
I lived in the mountains of Wyoming for about 5 months. Before I went out there I thought really hard about what instrument I wanted to bring with me. I decided to bring a didj even though I had never played one in my life. So, while I enjoyed the natural world around me I practiced the didj everyday and night. I have to say it made my time in the mountains one that I will never forget. |
James from USA |
A group of traveling didj players called "Didgeridon't." |
Anonymous from USA |
The history and unique sound that it produces. |
Jeremy Page from USA |
I love the aboriginal people for the most part. They are some of the nicest people I know. And, the music is beautiful, and inspiring. I like to inspire people. |
Julio Serrano from Mexico |
Basically, the Sound. |
Katie from USA |
I am just loving your site and learning about new instruments. I was searching for a boomerang for my son. |
Anonymous |
Studying the music from other cultures. |
Anonymous |
Hearing another didjeridu player. |
Luis Anillo from Spain |
A friend. |
Maarten from Belgium |
Traveling australia and meeting aborigine people and jamming with them with my djembee |
Magda from Australia |
Haven't thought that I could master the breathing because I can't swim either because of breathing. |
Mandela Van Eeden from USA |
I grew up on a deserted nature reserve at the most southern point of South Africa. The didjeridu was the only instrument on the nature reserve, so I taught myself how to play when I was 8. |
Mark Mondier from Belize |
Phil Jones |
Anonymous from USA |
A world band in New Orleans that I used to play with. |
Martin from Netherlands |
Cultural background, the instrument "looks" and the sound is unique. |
Matthew Brewster from Guernsey |
Peace, at one with the elements, |
Michael Melvin from USA |
I love the uniqueness of the instrument and also the history. It is a great meditation tool and I like the fact that the sound carries for a long ways. |
Nick Gaylord from USA |
I have a great passion to learn all types of world music all around |
Nicole from Germany |
I like it very much. The sound and the vibration. And it brings me closer to the Aboriginal people who I'd love to get know better. |
Niko from Finland |
It's different, you can play it without following any so called "rules". I really liked the sound of it when I first heard it. |
Pablo Beler from Ecuador |
When Heard for fist time I toll me I have to play that instrument, I love it sound is great, nobody can play the same of the other. so I did fist I investigate where its come from, the history and how to play, I made a few in my workshop and that's it, then I incorporate in my music. |
Paul Putman from United Kingdom |
II liked the unique sound and I like australian aboriginal history. It is a form of self expression which I like and like the way the player only helps to make the instrument speak its song. |
Anonymous |
I want to learn so I can add Didj to my guitar tracks. |
Philippe from Canada |
I just love the sound. It's relaxing and pretty unusual. I love simple instrument with not much artificial stuff with it. You tube video and Xavier Rudd's way of playing it motivated my choice. |
Rhiannon from USA |
Hearing a native CD with it on there. |
Anonymous from USA |
A combination of 2 friends, one who plays 12string guitar and jembi (drum), the other plays guitar and didj, plus for many years I've just loved the steady play / overall sound and especially the way it makes you feel so much when a didj is played. |
Anonymous from USA |
Sound, tradition, beauty |
Anonymous |
A friend that has one and two really good didj players I saw in Barcelona (MBA) |
Anonymous |
The awesomeness. |
Anonymous from Portugal |
Well it's very strange but after an initiation to shamanism I've heard a friend play and very easily got started playing |
Steve Pickering from Australia |
Aboriginal cultural interest, the most amazing sounds for a none electrical instrument |
Tanner Fitzgerald from USA |
I looked into dreadlocks and I saw an Aborigine playing with dreadlocks and then I met this hippie guy who was selling bamboo flutes and didjes but I could not afford a didj so I bought a flute and he thought me how to play on one of his didjes(for free) and I liked it way more than playing the tuba(i love playing tuba). |
Thomas from France |
The different cds I've got, the ancestral aboriginal spirit... |
Anonymous |
Just having received one for a gift. |
Anonymous |
None. |
Wesley from USA |
The sound is inspiring. |
Anonymous from Canada |
I like learning the instruments that are not being played by everyone around you, I wanted t have a unique talent and when I saw the didj I wanted to learn everything I could about it. |
