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Bipolar Disorder, Music and Online Shopping

For those new to my shareposts here, I have a confession to make: I play the didgeridoo.Okay, I exaggerate a bit. I honk the didgeridoo.The didgeridoo is perhaps the world’s oldest wind instrument, developed by the Aborigines in Australia. It is a long wooden tube that produces a drone very con...
4/ 9/08 6:31pm
My father used to blurt on the didgeridoo also.  He and mom went to Australia on their first international trip and he fell in love with the solesome sounds of the Aborigines, alas the sounds in his head never came out of the didgeridoo.  He's died almost three years ago but that didgeridoo still leans in the corner of my mother's bedroom.  Every now and then one of us brings it out and we all blurt on it.  My daughter, the bari sax and bass clarinet player can get the most recognizable noise out of it.  Now that she's gone off to college and found other things to interest her (boys and soroities), her saxes (multiples) sit in the corner with dust growing off their cases.  With your foray into ebay to get a trombone you helped me make up my mind not to sell the saxes.  She will want them again some day.  Maybe I'll take lessons - I used to play the oboe, shouldn't be too hard.
4/ 9/08 7:35pm

Hi, tis. Many thanks for your comments. Don't give up on the didge. It took me about 3 weeks before I could get a consistently good sound out of my first one. And even though I basically honk I derive great satisfaction from honking. Re the saxes - two considerations: 1) If you put them back in circulation then someone else gets to enjoy them. 2) They're heirlooms with great memories attached and worth holding onto.

 

So no right or wrong choice, but ample demonstration of how unthinkable life would be without music.

Anonymous
pocket
4/11/08 8:54am

can I link this site with mine?  enjoyed the reads.

bipolarblacklight.blogspot.com 

4/14/08 2:34am
Hi, pocket. Go for it. And keep checking in. A;; the best -
Anonymous
Louise
4/14/08 11:51am
A crappy trombone is better than no trombone at all!   BLOW ON!
4/15/08 1:50pm

Hey, Louise. You asked for it. One dark cold night, a knock on your door. A figure in the shadows clutching ten feet of bent pipe. He raised it to his lips ...

 

SCREAM!!!!

 

Big Smile

Anonymous
Grahm
4/18/08 3:53pm

Just fyi, we do make a didgeridoo that slides: www.didgeridoostore.com/didgeridoo_modern2.htm

 

Grahm Doe

The Didgeridoo Store

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