This is a hardcore didgeridoo channel of Dubravko Lapaine's didgeridoo universe. The channel was initially created for sharing didgeridoo music but didgeridoo tutorials and videos about didgeridoo making also became regular offering. It is here to inspire, give beauty, give know-how and support from a place of deep experience with didgeridoos.
Though Dubravko Lapaine is recorded in the videos, videos are not made or published by him. The videos are approved by him and he sometimes does visit channel and replies to comments.
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I drilled each of the three the same, as the title says. There was no natural hole in them. The main thing that gives the quality of the sound is the shape of the tube.This shape is identical in all three pieces. The next most important factor is hardness of the material. Walnut is about the hardness of Oak. Azobe is almost three times that hardness. Gidgee four times. Gidgee had also terrible "mouhtpiece" to play and had much thicker walls than the rest.
I think we could all agree, without a shadow of a doubt, that the walnut is the easiest to carry around. It is ok to hear the differences, it is ok not to hear. It is ok to have preferences, it is ok not to have. I happen to hear and to have, but that's just the way I enjoy life!
This is the best demonstration of the basics evolving to a marvellous composition, I am so in love. It's mesmerizing how it is done, in control. When I play, I feel like the didge plays with me, so I wiggle and get sucked inside, breaking the balance. But I am in the right path. Thank you very much
I love your name, I love your comment, I love what You are in this Universe and I love the fact that you don't know a blacker didge than ebony and you never will. ;-*
1. Got my interest 2.got me hypnotised 3. Saw the truth years ago in your workshops 4. Never heard anyone make a building tremble like you did in Belgium 5. You took me to a different realm in airvault 2009, you tootie master 6. Difficult and still not possible 7. Take off 8. Getting back to reality 9. Blank out 10. Wanting to buy... Cannot resist... 😆
hey, wanted to clean Mahogany didgeridoo with the soap and water but my didgeridoo shape is spiral , is it impossible to clean? what to do? im gross up because of the guy that made the didgeridoo handmade and used it , i want it clean before i use it
First of all, thank you for recognizing me as a didgeridoo cleaning guru that I am. I hope my answer doesn't come too late and that you don't have a pair of vicious eyes looking at you from the mp. So I guess you didn't get a spiral brush with your didge? Hmm.. it is a tough one as spiral/sax didges have this one disadvantage. This is what I would do: inspect with my nose how bad it is. If it is not bad, I would just keep cleaning the first 15 cm or however deep I can go easily. The zero and first step from the video from there after. If it is bad, I would probably just drown the didge in soapy water... hoping that the finish would survive... Then I would scrub it as much as I can with a bottle brush and hope for the best. The middle solution is to use some long flexible bottle brush and clean first 30cm or so without drowning the poor didge... Let me know how it went. Spiral out, keep didging!
I am really scared when it come to clean things. Yeah, I admit it, I don't wash my jacket in case it lost its textile properties. So, the water thing I really don't want to do it on a duende, I bought a nice thing to clean saxos or similar, I will use that every month, and wipe the mouthpiece with a cloth every time I play. I say now, may forget about it later. All of us had some weird people that come to ask "what is that" Can I play it? And they stick their nose inside 😍😍 lovely
The don'ts I have gotten wrong: 1) "Don't use tea tree oil." Early on I trashed the finish on a didge by thinking I was doing a good thing! 🤪 2) "Don't use alcohol to clean with." I didn't clean the didge with alcohol. I tried a strong mouthwash and then played didge. It softened the finish enough to make it sticky. 😢 Fortunately these are all fixable things but DON'T MAKE MY MISTAKES!
Love this video. Love your sense of humour😅. I bought a didge three weeks ago and started playing and wondered about cleaning it. It's very old and smells like old books or something. Glad I found this post. I must say, I was laughing 😃 throughout with phrases like " you'll have this thing showing at your bell end"😂, "finger deep"😮 and more, coupled with the tonal value of your voice. Maybe it's just my own naughty mind at work although I'm betting, others have noticed. You're great fun to watch and the first I found when I started playing three weeks ago. Thanks for the great videos. Groove On ✌️ ❤
Thank you for understanding my sheer brilliance! I attract the same. Yes, old books is my favourite most disgusting smell of a didge. Follow these steps and you will be free of it in a matter of years, unless you have old books around...
Ah! it you have mold inside, maybe try with that 5:00 technique but maybe also add the third container with magic with some isopropanol... test before dedication to scrubbing.
@DuendeDidgeridoo Thanks for replying. Thankfully. it's not mould. I used your technique with the brush, and with little effort, it was like new and 'Ye Ole bookshop odour' has gone. I'll miss that smell. Thanks again. Groove On ✌️
Thanks for the tutorial! I have a question concerning breathing. I am trying to play "tawaka" with aircord. If I breath in on the "wa" after some time I am full of air and have to take a break. The other option I tried is to breath one time in and one time out. That works better. When and how would you suggest to breath? Much love ❤
That is a GREAT question! To answer it, I had to try it myself. I use the same technique like you, breathing on the wa, I only breathe out less, once in four breaths. You can choose to skip the breath as well, or just breathe very little. Other way to balance out would be to push the Ta more, but that creates a different sound.
amazing. when I first learned about didgeridoos and read that hard/dense woods were typically preferred, my mind went straight to Lignum Vitae! so cool to see someone out in the world doing it. and that green shade of LV is just beautiful. making my next didge from Osage Orange. it isnt as hard as LV, but its the hardest we have in North America and one of my favorite woods to work. excited to try a didge from it.
Hey Martin! Thanks for hte kind words! The prices for LV start at higher four digit and go to low five digit amounts. If you send a mail to Duende didgeirdoo you give you an insight of what is possible.
TBH I was surprised too! I guess because I didn't go full throttle, this is why it lasted.. and there were some breaks in the cut... this wood in real life is even so much nicer than on YT
As always ... An awesome video . You're the true " connoisseur " !! But I'm a bit disappointed thought .. when I saw the forklift ... I thought you transported the wooden logs by hand... 😂
I did before the loader and I still do more than I want to ;-) This log was almost 250kg, so I really don't mind taking it around with my big friend...
