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Got together with one of my oldest friends the other day.

He's got this incredibly nice Australian didgeridoo in the key of C. It's quite hard to play compared to most other ones. It takes a lot of air compared to a D for example. 

I recorded a little video playing for his fearless bunny.

We started playing didgeridoo together when we were 12. Found them for sale cheap at some local hippie merch shop and became obsessed. He bought one and we would walk around together playing it when we hung out on weekends. 

Eventually I struck a deal with the shop owners: If I could play for an hour straight out front of their shop, they would give it to me for half off, like 30 bucks. I think they just wanted to annoy the owners of the Hi-Fi shop next door and it worked. Anyway that's how I got my first didge. A PVC pipe burned and bent to look like wood. I played that thing for 8 years before I got a real Australian eucalyptus didge.

The difference in tone between plastic and hardwood is immense. Plastic resonates longer giving it an echoey washi tone whereas wood will always have unique harmonic qualities and will not echo in the same way, leading to a clearer sound.

This didge here is of the best quality you can find anywhere. Its made by one of the Aboriginal craftsmen who sell on didjshop.com.

The sound of a didge in D, for comparison. Less breathy, more firey and percussive.

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oh i forgot i can beatbox ) hm, maybe i should do a 9:16 lol

Haha relatable. I was like sort of kind of a professional beatboxer for a while but I rarely pull that trick out of the hat nowadays. But it goes perfectly hand in hand with didgeridoo. BTW, what's a 9:16?

i think beatbox was the very first video i ever downloaded from the internet with my dialup modem. It took me whole night to download 6mb, and me and my brother started beatboxing since then and i believe we were the first beatboxers in our town. Cool times

No it was the other video. I think i will never find it. It was like 2003 or so. but this one is some oldschool shit. I love it. 

Check this Russian legend — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri9kNN-H0QU&t=26s 

This mfer is insane

I will! Also I used to play on the street with Gene Shinozaki who went on to win international beatbox competitions, looks like most of our old videos are no longer online but I found this candid video taken from across the tracks 😂 
https://youtu.be/IhOn4clRctM?si=-okP6w-qaG8BStx8

Dude I love that. Did you learn Rahzels "if your mother only knew" like I did 😅