Blue, Red, Yellow, Green, what are these artists thinking? This is an instrument not a painting! Color doesn't help a didgeridoo's sound. That doesn't mean it can't have any artwork on it, but you want to make sure a musician made it. This is really easy to find out. You see, you can ask the person at the store, "What key is this didgeridoo in?" and if they say I don't know it was obviously made by an Artist. You can also do it the easy way and simply ask, "Was this Didge made by an Artist or a Musician?"

A real didgeridoo should not be hollowed out by a machine, it's should be hollowed out by termites, and who ever made it should have made it to be played as an instrument not hung on a wall. While you're in the store thinking if you can try one out for yourself, go ahead and ask, I mean, what bad is going to happen? If you do, at least hold the didgeridoo and you can test the didge out together! See if it's a good, real didgeridoo. If it is, the didge should have these contents.

Rebound the palm of your hand against the mouthpiece, you should be able to feel the suction (of the mouthpiece) to see if the mouthpiece is good.

1. Long, Skinny, Fat, Short, well, it all depends on what tone you want. See this determines the pitch. These pitches would usually be C, C#, or D, but you can have all sorts of pitches like E, F, F# exc. The lower the pitch usually the harder to play and you need more experience.

2. Situate your ear up to the mouthpiece. You should hear a vibration kind of noise inside the didgeridoo. This gives you an idea of what the tone will be.

Didgeridoos should have beeswax on the mouthpiece, if not ask if someone at the shop to do it for you, or you can do it at home. If you do put the beeswax on at home here is how to check it's big enough to use. Put your tip of your middle finger and thumb together and the mouthpiece should be as big as that. If its not, you don't need to redo it, simply bend the beeswax. Here's how to play the didgeridoo in case you want to try one out or end up getting one.

1. Observe the video called didgeridoo and see how to move your lips.

2. Practice in front of the didgeridoo then put your lips into the didge mouthpiece and do the same.

3. Unfathomable noises will be coming out the end. Once you do that a few times start moving your lips around and make even stranger noises into the didgeridoo.

4. Peer at the video called DidgeridooVoice and see how you can use your voice in playing the didgeridoo!

Reader: Strange noises are coming out of the bottom, am I doing it right?

Me: Perfect, well, almost. There should be really strange noises coming out of the bottom, and once you get the hang of it, it should sound like a there is a bee quartet and then the baritone buzzes up a solo!

I was able to hear and see a professional didgeridoo player play the didge and that gave me a good idea of what it should look like when I learn to play. I was told that when didgeridoos were first made they were thought to be like trumpets, that's why as soon as I heard that, I had to try it out! The didgeridoo is really hard to play because when you are moving your lips like that, its like puffing out a big blow of air, and you usually have to breath back in through your nose. The man at the didgeridoo shop said it would be much easier for a trumpet player to play the didge, because once you are an intermediate player you start moving your lips like you do for a trumpet.

Humans often sit on the city floor and play the didgeridoo. I have seen about 5 people doing that, and 4 of them are Aboriginals! They usually listen to music without lyrics while they play. I think they do it because it has a good beat.

The Aboriginals originally made the didgeridoo. They made and played them for years, even though they were announced to be an instrument a couple hundred years after that. Aborigines love these instruments, here's what they say about them: (bold all of these message).

IT IS COMING FROM THE HEART

IT IS COMING FROM THE LAND

IT IS A SOUL INSTRUMENT

YOU FEEL IT.

IT IS THE SOUND OF MOTHER EARTH

When I first read this, I though it was inspiring.

Didgeridoos have inspired me so much, just think, a long bough of bamboo hollowed out by termites and beeswax on the top can be so beautiful. This may sound like a big ball of mush, but it's not, the didge is the oldest instrument in the world, and it makes the most beautiful sound I've ever heard!

Didgeridoos were first thought as very curious trumpets. Which I would understand because they kind of make the same noise, except for a few unexpected noises. So, if there is a didgeridoo player on the side of the street or playing at a concert, take a while and listen to them play. I'm almost positive you will feel the same way I do about the Aboriginals instrument, the didgeridoo.

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P.S.

-If you end up getting a Didgeridoo, email me a video of you playing it!

-I hope you noticed how I used rhetorical questions and started sentences with adjectives and other things besides pronouns. That's what I am working on right now in "school"!

Bibliography

http://www.aboriginalart.com.au/didgeridoo/what_is.html