Name and Country |
What inspired you to learn the didj? |
Adam Ditheridge from United Kingdom |
Learning about the Aboriginal culture as a whole. |
Anonymous |
I like the sound and the love philosophy behind it. |
Al Lovett from USA |
My ex GF had a PVC and said if I can make any sound from it then I can have it. I was able to make some sounds then decided to take a class from Stephen Kent when he was in the San Francisco bay area. |
Alan from United Kingdom |
The sound it makes |
Alex Surdu from USA |
The uniqueness and history of the instrument is intriguing to me. I'm classically trained as a trombonist and it's like nothing I've ever played before. I love everything about it. |
Allen Smith from USA |
Night time sleeping dreams plus the shear energy I felt when hearing it for the first time. |
Andrew Castle from USA |
I love the sound they make |
Anne from Canada |
Listening to it while visiting Australia |
Anu Van Leeuwen from Netherlands |
The sound and the culture of aboriginals. The wish to give this magnificent instrument a place in western music and to let the world know about it! I wanted to create a music group in which the didgeridoo is the centre! This I did with my world music group Bellydidge. |
Arnaud Dejean from France |
Meeting Phillip Peris & mates in Spain |
Anonymous from France |
I have seen a lot of people with Didj just holding it for being cool. And then one day I heard a real player in a store in Paris. |
Anonymous from USA |
"Mad Max: Beyond Thunder-dome" because I heard the beginning music with a didj playing and wanted to know what it was and how to play it. |
Brandon from USA |
I was introduced to the didj by warm and welcoming people. Thus, I had a positive association with it from the beginning. I relate the sound with kindness, intellect, and peace. |
Anonymous |
I play trumpet and am curious how well the skills and talents transfer for me. |
Brittany from USA |
I want to learn the didj, but I haven't had the opportunity. I unfortunately can not afford one at this time because of school. I wanted to learn because I was playing this game (that came with encarta encyclopedia) about world music. Since I have always been interested in this, I enjoyed the game very much. One of the instruments was the didgeridoo and I loved the sound so much (I enjoy drone instruments), I am determined to learn it. |
Chace Bedford from USA |
I got a bug for it last christmas and used some of the money to buy a ton of instruments including ethnic ones. I am so intent on learning every instrument I could that when I saw the didge I knew I had to learn it. especially the one I found was gorgeous, it was a burnt ebony didge that has a very low low B note which also inspired me to pick up the didgeridoo. That and I have always loved its haunting and soothing sound since I was a child. |
Chris from USA |
I love the sound and when I was walking down the street in san Francisco, California I saw a bamboo didj. I asked the store owner if I could try it and to my surprise I made a sound with my first try. I have been teaching myself to play ever since that day about 12 years ago |
Chris Smith from USA |
It is exotic and interesting with an incredible sound |
Christopher Weber from USA |
I saw one at a place in Kentucky called Kentucky Down Under. I tried it since I'm a musician and I was hooked. |
Chuck from USA |
Hearing the sounds. Inspired me to try to do the same thing. |
Anonymous |
Fate |
Anonymous |
Calming tones |
Dean Archer from United Kingdom |
Nature |
Anonymous |
My father telling me about the respiratory benefits of playing. |
Dima Shebalev from Israel |
A friend of my lent me his didge for a year and I got the rhythm... later on I asked from another friend to bring me a didge from australia (he was travelling there), I got this one for about 2 years |
Anonymous from Austria |
Andrew Langford; Aborigines in Alice Springs and being in the Aussie outback |
Don from USA |
I loved the sound the first time I heard one. |
Drew from Australia |
Interest in music |
Edd Horrocks from United Kingdom |
Voices in my head!!!!!!! a niggling urge!!! |
Frank from USA |
My wife read an article about it, and after I looked it up on the internet and heard it being played, I was hooked. Then I found a teacher, but I am still a beginner. After I attain some competence, I plan to purchase an authentic didge. |
Frederick from USA |
Like the sound... very soothing to me... |
Gonzalo from Chile |
Me gustan mucho todos los instrumentos aborígenes. Me intereso el didj por su capacidad de imitar sonidos de la naturaleza. |
Anonymous from Singapore |
The sound. One hundred percent unique! Plus, the art of playing. |
Hans Giesholt from USA |
I really like the instrument and the sounds |
Anonymous from USA |
This website. My son is 14, he is completely musical and vocal. He plays several string and brass instruments and has a beautiful voice. He also has several native flutes which he loves. I want to have a didj for him (and I) to learn and for us to use for healing and meditative purposes. We also have a dear friend who is a music therapist and I am forwarding this site to her. I am very familiar with the healing and meditative possibilities and properties with regard to frequency. There are several ancient instruments that I look forward to learning more about and obtaining for these purposes. Thanks! |
Henrique Bezerra from Portugal |
I went to a concert of a band called Blasted Mechanism and they use this kind of aboriginal instruments combined with rock instruments, I liked the combination specially the Didgeridoo. I started to learn a little time ago so I can't circular breath yet. |
Hugo Ferreira from Portugal |
My search for something that can make me relax. |
Jacopo from Italy |
My trip in Australia |
Jared from USA |
A guy who was selling a lot of them and he had one he owned and he was playing it and thought it was so cool and got my dad to get 1 |
Jere from Finland |
My friend bought me one as a graduation gift and when I checked out the instrument and it's background I was thrilled and aching to learn to play it! |
Jesse Henceroth from USA |
Seeing others playing the instrument |
Anonymous |
Lived in Melbourne, traveled to Alice |
Jolyon from United Kingdom |
Visiting australia and seeing it done. I just loved the sound |
Anonymous |
I play djembe and I really want to play didgeridoo also. I like world cultures. |
Josh from Canada |
Friends |
Kara from USA |
Being in drum circles where one person always has a didge |
Anonymous |
I'm a music teacher in a primary school and I'd really like to teach my students about traditional aboriginal music |
Anonymous from USA |
Love the sound! |
Anonymous |
The sound it produces is unique |
Lion from USA |
Listening to Stephen.. |
Marco Vinicio from Italy |
I have heard didj sound on internet. |
Martin Sørensen from Denmark |
My english teacher was the first person to teach and tell me about Australian and aboriginal culture. I found it very much exiting. She showed us a video from her trip to Australia were she had bought a didge. that was the first time a saw and heard a didge. I fell in love with the crazy vibrating sound. |
Marty from USA |
I was invited to a Yanni Concert many years ago. At the end of the concert, the last song started with David Hudson on the Didgeridoo. I realized I have found an instrument I wanted to learn. |
Massimo from Italy |
The idea to learn a new meditation with the circular breathe |
Matthew from USA |
Life long interest in Australia. Life long interest in music. |
Anonymous |
It was given to me a present. The person who gave it told me they had a vision that I should have it. |
Michael from USA |
A psychic told me I would help open some chakra |
Anonymous |
I WANT TOO |
Anonymous from France |
My first didgeridoo was a gift |
Michelle from USA |
I saw someone playing one at Summer Camp Music Festival and I became very interested in learning. |
Mike Hoover from USA |
While attending a renaissance festival I heard a merchant playing one in the far off distance and it sounded so entrancing that I had to check it out. when we found where the sound was coming from I was amazed that it was a didgeridoo!! so after taking with the merchant for awhile I decided to buy a bamboo starter didge and I love playing it!! |
Mike Nichols from Canada |
The resonation with the beginning of time and the way it cuts to the core of earth energy and healing potential |
Mitch from USA |
I first heard it on an Xavier Rudd cd and got hooked from there, I can't get enough of it! |
Nancy from USA |
Needing to address asthma and meditation breathing issues |
Patrick from Australia |
A spiritual gift, after an accident. After a set of circumstances and some brilliant timing. |
Paul from USA |
I like the sound |
Anonymous from United Kingdom |
Have special needs kid and they find the didge very soothing and it does calm them |
Anonymous |
Yanni he has a great didgeridoo player in his band |
Peter Russell from Australia |
Skippy the bush Kangaroo. As explained before. |
Raffael from Germany |
The uniqueness of this wonderful instrument make me hoping I can learn it. |
Ricardo from Mexico |
The sound it relaxes me |
Anonymous from USA |
I wanted to play a unique and different instrument |
Robin from USA |
I have heard didj players at festivals and I'm very drawn to the tones and vibrations. The sound waves produced seem harmonic with the universe. |
Robson Castilho from Brazil |
Culture and a very grand fasinante |
Sergey from Russia |
I have heard about didjes a long time ago. But it always was a bamboo pipe or something like that, and people make some kind of base sound. It wasn't interesting. And about half year ago I've seen the real didj and a man who know how to play. I was very inspired about didj abilities and unique sound. |
Anonymous from USA |
My friend gave me a CD of didjes a few years ago and I really liked them. At a music festival in Chicago, a vendor had a didj for $60, but I didn't have enough money. Finally, I heard about a band called Fort Pastor that plays acoustic folk music with a didj. I looked up "how to make a didgeridoo" on Google and was directed here. I've had mine about a week and am learning how to play, but I can't get any beeswax yet so I've been without a mouthpiece. [OUR COMMENT: for beeswax try bee-keepers, hardware stores, art suppliers and health food stores] |
Anonymous |
I haven't tried yet, but I want to learn. A musician came to our school who played the didj, and I was fascinated, so now I want to learn too!! |
Steav Bates-congdon from USA |
A young man we met in Costa Rica who was a great didj player played at the ocean shore every evening with us. I had a good telescope with me and he would play his didj; everyone in town came out to listen and look and we had the best star parties and the best music at them I have ever experienced. |
Steve Jones from USA |
Love the way it sounds. |
Anonymous from USA |
Love the Sound. |
Taylor from USA |
The culture of the Aboriginal people |
Telmo from Portugal |
After a birthday present and total failure at any attempt to make any sound, I decided to explore the instrument's roots, and as I began to learn how to play, the further I looked beyond the initial simplicity, the more it opened path for the complexity behind it, not just in the sonic realm, but in a social and cultural view, regarding the simple and respecting lifestyle with which it is bound, making me question the world's, current, and ever growing corporate society even more. |
Anonymous |
Just listening to others |
Anonymous |
I had heard about them but never played one, then a friend of mine got a inexpensive bamboo didj. I played it a couple of times and loved it! I ended up making my first didj from PVC, then found a wood didj made out of Teak at a music shop. I play both regularly and am looking to buy a natural termite hollowed didj in the near future. |
Tony from USA |
Listening |
Vitaliy from Russia |
Incredible sound, that makes my soul way out |
Wayne from Australia |
The sound and the involvement of the player |
