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Check out Jake Duncan playing one of Chad Butler's awesome didges!
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Studies have linked didgeridoo playing as beneficial to sleep apnoea, and even asthma however, there are other health considerations to ponder:

"Wind instrumentalists may suffer from hemoptysis, laryngoceles, velopharyngeal insufficiency and pneumoparotitis due to their musical performance. Even the development of lung cancer has been assumed to be related to wind instrument playing."

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Tall End: 73"
Short End: 63"

Tall Key: B
Short Key: C

This year both JT and InDidjInUs are shifting their schedules slightly so we can du them back to back and create a little over a week of a gypsy didgeridoo family.

First meeting up in Oregon for the 13th Annual InDidjInUs Gathering of the didgeridoo Tribe and all meeting up again the following weekend in California for the 6th annual JT Didgefest.

Hopefully the few days in between will be filled with lots of camping adventures with didj family friends both new and old and creating new traditions.

Scheduling them together makes it easier for folks traveling from afar to be able to get it all in at once and create more of a community sharing in both events.

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InDidjInUs didgeridoo Gathering

YEPPOON'S William Charles Dengate got more than he asked for when he told a teenage drug dealer he wanted his cash back after being sold a dodgy batch of marijuana. The next day three men, one armed with a didgeridoo, burst into a neighbour's unit and bashed Mr Dengate, who was visiting. His jaw was so crushed it needed 16 screws and four plates to be fixed by doctors at a Brisbane hospital.

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Welcome to TheDidgeShop forum, this forum is in no way associated with the didjshop forum, or any other forum. Enjoy it, say whatever you want to! This forum will follow a sort of hands-off approach. Unless someone is being seriously evil and relentless, I'm not going to moderate anything. I don't want outright marketing of other sites, but I want people to be able to sell or barter there didges if they want to.

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My Didge Crafting Disclaimer: 

Out of respect for the origins of the Didgeridoo (Yidaki), and the aboriginal peoples, I want to make known that the Didgeridoos I make should in no way be considered authentic, aboriginal instruments. My didges are my own take on a historic and sacred instrument, the Yidaki. My intention is to enhance my own culture through the interpretive use of the didgeridoo, not to supplant or capitalize on the Yidaki, or the unique songs that are part of the culture of the aboriginal people of Australia.

I am inspired by the Yidaki, and it’s haunting sounds, and I wish only to promote the growth of a uniquely American culture of the Didgeridoo in it’s many forms and styles.

In the future, I may sell some of the didgeridoos I create. Please do not purchase from me or any other non-aboriginal crafters instead of buying the original from the source. I have provided links on this blog to promote the sales of the aboriginal people over my own.

Do buy from me or other non-aboriginal crafters if the uniqueness of our styles of crafting is what you are looking for. In this way we can hope to respect the origins of the instrument and preserve the aboriginal culture that surrounds it.

Thank you.

John Burnett

This is my third didge, and I have the technique more or less down. This is step 2, hollowing out the didgeridoo. It took me about an hour to finish one half. This basically involves using a chainsaw to create the bore. The first step wasn't photographed but it basically involves cutting the didge lengthwise with a sawsall. I will post pics of the glue-up and clamping when I get to that step.

The wood is California Live Oak. The city decided to clear some of the dangerous trees and limbs in the park behind my house and that provided me with the stick for this project.