| WALKNRAVEN's Didgeridoos | |||||||||||||||||
| 'From the land up over' |
Greetings, To start with I would like to tell you just a bit about how I came to know about the didgeridoo. The first time I heard a didgeridoo was when I was about 8 years old. It had been on a PBS channel. That stands for (Public Broadcasting System) here in the USofA. The station was doing a documentary on Australia. This I do remember. I do not remember however that I ever saw a didgeridoo on the program, but I somehow (think) I always know what it was. (You get like that as time goes by). The sound I heard over the television. the day resonated to my very core. And it stayed with me. Over the years when I would hear one, I would stop in my tracks, transfixed. At times I could feel tears of joy, sadness, completeness, vastness, wholeness come to my eyes. I could feel the earth and sky. My whole being would resonate with the sound. Tough to explain. But it is something like that. So time passed, as it does. Now some 35 years later I make and play the didgeridoo. And at times, I still get these feelings. | ||||||||||||||||
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On the day I started to play the didgeri, my love bride Bonnie and I went
to visit my sister in Taos New Mexico USA we came across an art fair. And
behold, someone had a both and was selling didgeridoos. Again I stood
transfixed. Oh those wonderful feelings..."Bonnie can I have one????" I
said while standing there drooling. "Sure honey just as soon as you learn
to play your drum and your flute and your guitar and your............" Get
the picture. So instead I bought a tape on how to play the didgeridoo which
pretty much consisted of a few hints on how to circular breaths and hints
on how to make the various sound. Well the hints on circular breathing
worked. I was doing it in less than 5 hours. I could circular breathe
before I could drone. That was the start. The rest is still happening. And
thanks to my lovely bride Bonnie and the loving support of friends
especially John Kaskela and Jim Fitzpatrick and family I find myself with
the page you are now reading. And so we continue on.
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| My first didgeridoos were made out of white PVC pipe with black magic marker all over it for a design. If I ever get humble enough I'll post them for the world to see. And I'm sure for those of you who do play the didgeridoo will cry at the sight of them. For those of you who do not play, visit some of the web sites that I have here. They will take you on a wonderful journey into the world and the history of the didgeridoo and people who brought this wonderful, magical instrument to the world. Walk with Love and peace. W.W.Raven | |||||||||||||||||
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