Name and Country |
Do you tell your friends and audience about the cultural background of the didj? |
What do you tell people about the cultural background of the didj? |
Alexandre Nogueira from Portugal |
Always |
An aborigine looking for firewood when he found a branch of tree that was hollow and led him to his village. There, because of the wind, he noticed the sound doing and from there used it as musical instrument |
Amadeus from United Kingdom |
Always |
That it is a region specific instrument to the Top End and is a musical device for spiritual means. I also encourage them to buy an Yolungu yidaki and not a mass produced didgeridoo. |
Amber from USA |
Always |
Not knowing much about it yet but I've seen them at a drumming circle and knew without being told that it is an ancient healing instrument |
Amy from USA |
Sometimes |
I wish I knew more about the cultural background. All that I know is that the didj has been around before Christ, and has ancient healing wisdom, when humans were attuned to this basic, harmonious, and essential level of consciousness. |
Anonymous |
Only if asked |
Made by aborigines thousand of years old etc |
Annetta from USA |
Never |
I don't |
Atticus from Australia |
Always |
In a gum-shell I tell them it stands the test of time. basic and simple is what it all boils down to. simple is most often most pleasurable. |
Anonymous from Australia |
Sometimes |
Don't know background |
Brett Makowski from USA |
Always |
That it is, along with the drum, the oldest known instrument still played and made as it was a very long time ago. I also explain how the songs can have deep meanings and and tell of story's including life... |
Brian from Canada |
Mostly |
Majority of them are from Northern Australia |
Casey from USA |
Mostly |
It's an Australian instrument, first made and played by Australian aboriginals. |
Charles from USA |
Sometimes |
That it's a native aboriginal instrument. |
Anonymous |
Rarely |
I don't have any friends to talk to about it, nor an audience. |
Anonymous |
Sometimes |
It originated with the Aborigine people of Australia and was used for dance and religious ceremonies |
Anonymous |
Always |
It was made by the Aborigines of Australia and it is a part of their culture. |
Anonymous |
Only if asked |
I know very little |
Christopher Kosek from USA |
Never |
I don't know that much about the actual cultural background |
Chrystal from USA |
Always |
It is from Aborigine |
Claudia from Italy |
Sometimes |
I do not know |
Conor Kelly from Australia |
Only if asked |
That it is made by the aboriginals of australia |
Curtis from USA |
Mostly |
It is sacred and ancient |
Daniele Baldan from Italy |
Mostly |
Didjeridu is a spiritual musical instrument. And for he originals players (and howners) is a serious part of the culture. firs of all, it need respect when someone know aboriginal culture. The old habitants of australian, was captured and kill (also with alcohol) by the colonials. In your home. The didgeridoo can be a big rape for this beautiful culture if we make commerce without respect and if we play it only to copy the aboriginal style. For aboriginals didgeridoo is a instrument to make a contact with the nature: the take it, and work it, in perfect balance with nature. Not like the occidental commercial culture. We have to know this culture (all culture are interesting because are beautiful differences between people), but with respect. Play didj (like other musical instrument) but with respect for the culture: NOT like a 'ethnic style for commerce' but to know and grow up comprehend the way for tolerance (without occidental globalisation) |
David from Canada |
Mostly |
I heard that a young boy would be sent out to the wilderness, to come back once he experimented and learned how to make some music with the didj |
David from USA |
Mostly |
It was invented in northern Australia and was a big part of the ceremonial life of the tribes in that area. |
Derek Rusinek from USA |
Always |
I go though the basics: it's one of the oldest instruments, it was created by the Aboriginal people of Australia, and how they play for ceremonies. |
Edward Olson from USA |
Always |
It's place in history dates back 1,000's of years and is considered the first woodwind instrument. |
Anonymous |
Always |
Its an amazing cultural thing |
Gabriele Parrillo from Italy |
Mostly |
People who honours the earth finds his sound |
Guido from Italy |
Always |
It is very interesting, take a look |
Anonymous |
Only if asked |
Mostly main facts, like where they find them how they are hollowed. |
Harold from USA |
Only if asked |
It is the instrument of the Native peoples of Australia. |
Hilary from USA |
Sometimes |
Part of aboriginal culture, played ceremonially only by men, its use outside the aboriginal diaspora is controversial in some circles |
Anonymous from Australia |
Sometimes |
Just how it has cultural significance and has been in use for thousands of years |
Ivor Carter from Australia |
Mostly |
That is is probably the oldest instrument in the world and known also in other cultures all over the world |
James Nesbit from USA |
Sometimes |
I tell them that indigenous people of Australia created this wind instrument hundreds of years ago. It also goes by the name yidaki in some places. |
James from USA |
Mostly |
That the didgeridoo is perhaps the oldest woodwind instrument and was first created by the Aborigine people of Australia out of eucalypt wood that had been hollowed out by termites. |
Anonymous from USA |
Always |
That it is known as the oldest wind instrument in the world, the origins of the didge may go back as far as 40,000 years. |
Jeremy Page from USA |
Sometimes |
I lived in Australia for about two years, and in that time. I became quite accustom to seeing the instrument, and from there I began to work on the ability to play it. |
Julio Serrano from Mexico |
Only if asked |
I don't know much about it... but I'm trying to learn any thing about this instrument and in consequence about the australian culture. |
Katie from USA |
Always |
Well since I am just learning I have yet to share, but will |
Anonymous |
Always |
It is a musical instrument indigenous to the native people of Australia |
Anonymous |
Sometimes |
Its an instrument of the aboriginal people of australia. Authentic instruments are made from wood hollowed out by termites. |
Luis Anillo from Spain |
Sometimes |
Australian native plays it before europeans arrive there. They've been playing yidakis from hundred of years in ritual ceremonies, for healing and mostly because they like to play it!!! |
Maarten from Belgium |
Rarely |
That it is an instrument used by aboriginals and that it is made from trees eaten by termites |
Magda from Australia |
Always |
I tell them it's a unique instrument to the Aboriginal people and that they use it to play music which recreates the sounds of the land and nature. It's sometimes played with clap sticks and singing and used in ceremonies. |
Mandela Van Eeden from USA |
Always |
It is the oldest instrument in the world, dating back 55,000 years... Perhaps before African drums. Men mostly play it, it is a male instrument. In order of importance, the clap-stick play is top, then the song-man, and lastly the didjeridu player. It is a tree, hollowed out by termites... And much much more!! |
Mark Mondier from Belize |
Sometimes |
Oldest instrument on earth. |
Anonymous from USA |
Rarely |
It is one of the oldest instruments in the world and is used for ceremonial and celebratory purposes by Aboriginal people. |
Martin from Netherlands |
Sometimes |
The Didgeridoo is a drone instrument originally used by Aboriginal groups in the Northern areas of Australia, mainly an area of the Northern Territory known as Arnhemland. |
Matthew Brewster from Guernsey |
Rarely |
Only if they ask me, most people know were it came from |
Michael Melvin from USA |
Always |
The legend of the Aboriginal people is that the first men where in the out back and night fell and it began to get cold so they built a fire from what wood they had gathered. as the night got colder one man grabbed another log of wood to throw on the fire, but when he looked at it closely he saw that it was hallow and full of white ants and so he blew the ants out of the didgeridoo and it made an awesome sound and the white ants that he blew out of the wood became the stars. |
Nick Gaylord from USA |
Mostly |
That it comes from the aborigines and was used for many different purposes from ceremonies to war time calls to music playing. |
Nicole from Germany |
Mostly |
Depends who I talk to and decide from there what to say. |
Niko from Finland |
Mostly |
They usually already know that it's an aboriginal thing... But I tell them about it's ceremonial use. |
Pablo Beler from Ecuador |
Mostly |
Something about the other answer. |
Paul Putman from United Kingdom |
Mostly |
That it was originally from australia and was made and used by aboriginal men. Often stories from the dreamtime can be more easily told by playing the didgeridoo to explain the past. |
Anonymous |
Sometimes |
It is used in corroborees |
Philippe from Canada |
Mostly |
Mainly, that it is an old instrument created by the aboriginal people of australia |
Rhiannon from USA |
Mostly |
Some basic background on the aboriginal people and the role of the didgeridoo in their culture. |
Anonymous from USA |
Mostly |
As much as I know and I'm always reading more about it whenever I can. |
Anonymous from USA |
Mostly |
History, age, symbolism |
Anonymous |
Sometimes |
I really don't know much about cultural background of didj |
Anonymous |
Sometimes |
It's made by Australian Aborigines |
Anonymous from Portugal |
Sometimes |
It's a shamanic instrument |
Steve Pickering from Australia |
Always |
The 'yidaki' originates from the northern territory and can only be played by a tribal member. but anyone can play the didgeridoo |
Tanner Fitzgerald from USA |
Mostly |
That is like an Aboriginal tuba (I play american Tuba) |
Thomas from France |
Always |
It's the oldest music instrument in the world, invented and used by aboriginals, the indigenous people of Australia |
Anonymous |
Mostly |
That it is australian and the aboriginal people play the didj |
Anonymous |
Never |
Nothing. |
Wesley from USA |
Rarely |
That the didgeridoo is an Aboriginal instrument |
Anonymous from Canada |
Mostly |
How it has so many uses, such as for the healing of the player and others, and meditation purposes and used in ceremonial purposes by the aborigines. |
