Description
Didgeridoo:
This is a stunningly beautiful designed Didgeridoo. It has Spirals and Stripes all over it. Lance Howerton from Our Children’s Earth, is a Circle Breathing, Didge Loving and Making Fellow. He says these Didgeridoos have great sound and are fun to play. The didgeridoo that you receive will not be this exact one as every musical instrument is made with love by hand and every instrument forms it’s own shapes and designs. They will all have spirals and stripes on them. This will be in a white or gray as the main color, with the brown marks for the designs. These are around 5 feet tall.
We do not use wax on the mouth piece of our Didgeridoos. Lance has designed an original mouth piece where no wax is needed. He also has designed a beautiful and original bell shape at the bottom of these that create amazing musical sounds. These Didgeridoos are easy to use and he makes sure that everyone he creates can produce beautiful sounds and circle breathing on it.
Some information taken from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didgeridoo):
The didgeridoo (also known as a didjeridu or didge) is a wind instrument developed by Indigenous Australians of northern Australia around 1,500 years ago and still in widespread usage today both in Australia and around the world. It is sometimes described as a natural wooden trumpet or “drone pipe”. Musicologists classify it as a brass aerophone.[1]
Non-traditional didgeridoos can also be made from PVC piping, non-native hard woods (typically split, hollowed and rejoined), glass, fiberglass, metal, agave, clay, hemp (a bioplastic named zelfo), and even carbon fiber. These didges typically have an upper inside diameter of around 1.25″ down to a bell end of anywhere between two to eight inches and have a length corresponding to the desired key. The mouthpiece can be constructed of beeswax, hardwood or simply sanded and sized by the craftsman. In PVC, an appropriately sized rubber stopper with a hole cut into it is equally acceptable, or to finely sand and buff the end of the pipe to create a comfortable mouthpiece.
Modern didgeridoo designs are distinct from the traditional Australian Aboriginal didgeridoo, and are innovations recognized by musicologists.[11][12] Didgeridoo design innovation started in the late 20th Century using non-traditional materials and non-traditional shapes.
The didgeridoo is played with continuously vibrating lips to produce the drone while using a special breathing technique called circular breathing. This requires breathing in through the nose whilst simultaneously expelling stored air out of the mouth using the tongue and cheeks. By use of this technique, a skilled player can replenish the air in their lungs, and with practice can sustain a note for as long as desired. Recordings exist of modern didgeridoo players playing continuously for more than 40 minutes; Mark Atkins on Didgeridoo Concerto (1994) plays for over 50 minutes continuously.
A 2005 study in the British Medical Journal found that learning and practicing the didgeridoo helped reduce snoring and obstructive sleep apnea by strengthening muscles in the upper airway, thus reducing their tendency to collapse during sleep.[18] This strengthening occurs after the player has mastered the circular breathing technique.
These will be shipped out in a weeks time due to the unique hand crafted nature of each.
