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From: wjr@x.UUCP (Bill Richard)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: What the heck is a Digeridu ? ?
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Date: Thu, 29-Aug-85 01:12:31 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 29 01:12:31 1985
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Disclaimer:  Neither wjr nor frog have discussed digeridus with me.  If they
want to use my opinions, they can.

In article <5108@mit-eddie.UUCP> nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan) writes:
>> From: tynor@gitpyr.UUCP (Steve Tynor)
>> Subject: What the heck is a Digeridu ? ?
>
>> Can anyone describe what a digeridu looks like and how it's played?
>
>It is a humongous woodwind!  I  always thought it was the whistling
>sound though.... but now that you mention it, maybe it's the sound that
>continues on into "Night of The Swallow".  Is that what you think it is?
>
A digeridu makes a noise like god's own bronx cheer -- a cross between a
whoopie cushion and Mt. St. Helens.  Somewhere in my unindexed viddietapes I
have a little digeridu piece (artist forgotten) -- maybe from Carson, maybe 
from D@vid Letterm@n.  If you've ever played a derder, you have the general
idea. (A derder is the cardboard core from a roll of paper towels -- the one
three-year-olds hold to their mouths and go "der! der!" into.)

>continuously.  In order to play it you have to learn how to breath in
>through your nose while simultaneously breathing out through your mouth
>(how this is done, I know not).

If there were a net.rec.drug, you could ask someone how to use a long bong and
reverse the technique -- basically, you use your mouth as a reservoir to 
maintain the pressure and your nose (quickly) to grab air.  I can't do it.


				STella Calvert
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