What are the factors affecting Aborigine didgeridoo sound?
Every genuine Aborigine didgeridoo has its own spirit, a uniqueness arising from • the inside configuration and measure as the aftermath of termites’ feast, • the species of the tree, more precisely, its density, • the thickness of the walls, thick enough not to crack, thin enough for good resonance, • the length of the didgeridoo, real and adjusted by the third of the base diameter, • the ratio of the top and base diameters, the taper and more… The didgeridoo sound is determined by these objective factors apart from the subjective: the didgeridoo player or puller. The first two contributing elements are given by Nature, but the last three elements can be attuned, more or less, by the expertise of an accomplished craftsman, the didgeridoo maker. All these characteristics will directly influence the quality of the didgeridoo sound or rather the oneness of it, the spirituality of didgeridoos. Some of these sound qualities are very subjective, everybody has a different taste for tonalit
