| 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 from USA |
Yes |
Varying the amount of air changes the tone. |
| Bobby from USA |
Yes |
The didj has one main key and the notes can be changed by changing your lip position tightness etc. |
| Anonymous |
No |
It is a fixed resonant tube and can only have the note bent slightly off its resonate frequency. |
| Chris from USA |
Yes |
The Didge has a base key but there are many ways to pitch it up or down. |
| Anonymous |
Yes |
The toot horn is an another note and by increasing the volume of the tone you can change pitch etc d to d# |
| Chuck Thorne from USA |
No |
Really don't know just a semi educated guess |
| Anonymous from China (pr) |
??? |
I really don't know! |
| Daniel from Switzerland |
Yes |
Root-tone and overtones toots... modulations with changing of the mouth/jaw/lip position |
| Daniel from USA |
??? |
Unknown |
| David Lucena from Brazil |
Yes |
We can make toots |
| David from USA |
Yes |
The didj usually plays about a full octave of notes depending on the tightening of the lips/embrasure. The tighter the embrasure the higher the pitch the looser the lower. I play trombone and it is a very similar concept to the embrasure needed to play brass instruments. |
| Elisabeth Procter from USA |
Yes |
Never played one just listen to didj music (Eat Your Guru Kakadu Oka Aphrodidjiac Temple of Didje Trancescapes Sun Also Dances Voice of the Bama Savannah etc). |
| Fábio Augusto from Brazil |
Yes |
Didj is a instrument of soul possibility many notes |
| Frank from Netherlands |
Yes |
Because you work with your voice I guess |
| Gary from USA |
No |
The didj is a wind instrument that creates a drone sound and has no finger holes to produce notes |
| Anonymous from USA |
Yes |
Your website told me that at least two notes could be made on most of the didjes I looked at online. |
| George from USA |
Yes |
By changing your breathing along with mouth and tongue position you can create differing overtones/notes with the didj. |
| Anonymous |
Yes |
Different sizes length what they are made from etc |
| Jake from USA |
No |
To be honest I'm not real sure but I believe its that you can only play different pitches not really notes. |
| Jake from USA |
Yes |
Different secondary tonal harmonics in some didges |
| Jesse from USA |
Yes |
Well I haven't gotten one yet but harmonics from the tongue movement and vocals/ |
| Anonymous |
Yes |
I thought it had to do with the embouchure of the mouth and the manipulation of air flow |
| John from USA |
Yes |
By changing lip positions and air pressure (tooting) you can hit different notes. |
| Josef from New Zealand |
No |
It is only possible (different notes) on a slide didj increasing or decreasing the air volume inside |
| Kate from USA |
Yes |
You basically have one note because it is based on it's length but you can get other close note out of it. |
| Anonymous |
??? |
?? |
| Keith from USA |
Yes |
Deeper tones from larger didj |
| Ken Harry from Canada |
No |
The didge is tuned to the note the finished product makes. |
| Ken Rath from Denmark |
Yes |
I think its the same as playing the trumpet |
| Leslie from USA |
Yes |
Not sure |
| Luca from Italy |
??? |
Dunno |
| Anonymous |
Yes |
I have no idea but I'm guessing it has something to do with diameter material thickness of material |
| Matt Meers from USA |
Yes |
The different notes come from the overblows as the each doubling of the resonant frequency causes a new note. Mostly it is considered a drone (one note) instrument in which the note is altered bent and layered through the use of voice air pressure as well as adjustment to the volume of the mouth. |
| Neil from United Kingdom |
No |
I'm not sure but I would have thought the didge produces a variety of tonal variations of the same note with octave increases (but to the same higher note) with the horn sound. Although the variations are great I'm not sure they would constitute a complete note change (although I've never measured it!). |
| Nick Emilio from USA |
Yes |
Can be played by changing the tightness of the lips and/or increasing or lessening the breathing power |
| Anonymous from USA |
Yes |
Drone versus singing versus harmonies versus overblows. I can achieve many harmonic notes outside the mouth two to three over blows... but the main structure depends on the drone note. |
| Richard Crow from United Kingdom |
Yes |
Different notes can be played by changing the frequency that the air resonates through the didj this can be done in many ways changing the way your throat contracts/expands the way your tongue can push air from the mouth and the shape of the lips can also alter the tone of a sound |
| Anonymous from France |
No |
I think that if we can't modify the height of the didj the note can't be changed... except on slide-didj. |
| Anonymous |
Yes |
Fluctuations in the pitch of voice and how much air is exerted. |
| Russell Sherman from USA |
Yes |
Different forces of vibrations from lip movements and how much your blowing or not? |
| Anonymous from France |
Yes |
Car il faut faire des choix dans les didges: on priviligé soit les harmoniques les differentes rythmiques ou encore la note de base ou le 1er & 2ème hot (hut) la qualité de survibration si on veut qu'il sonne grave ou aïgu la longueur la taille de la cloche (pavillon)........il y abeaucoup de paramètres différents dû àla richesse de notre mère nature c'est pourquoi il y a autant de didges que de joueurs dans le monde et il y a de multiples façon de jouer........ l'important c'est ce qu'insouffle le joueur dans son didge une partie de lui...........la personnalité du joueur a une place importante ainsi que son imaginaire......... |
| Anonymous |
??? |
I thought that didjes were single-noted? |
| Sergio Gonzalez from Mexico |
Yes |
All depends on the large of the didj and the ability to play it. different large different notes and the ability helps a lot to increase the variations. |
| Anonymous from Chile |
Yes |
Its depends on what didj are you playing. you can make didj for every note. |
| Steve from USA |
??? |
Don't know |
| Anonymous |
??? |
What's a didj? |
| Thomas Gibson from USA |
Yes |
Have no idea |
| Anonymous |
Yes |
On peut jouer un grand nombre de notes dans un didj en variant les débits d'air et en faisant des cris dans le didj. |
| Anonymous from USA |
No |
You may be able to change the tone slightly but the instrument is designed to play one note. It is a wooden tube. |
| Willard Shaw from USA |
??? |
Very low vibes |
| Anonymous |
No |
I don't know |
